There's a problem with the way tutorial writing works on this website. Specifically, if something doesn't get "manually" moved into the list on the Tutorials page, it's pretty much gone forever in very short order. The only place it's listed after that is in the author's "writeups" page and the occasional lucky search.

Because of the nature of tutorials, and the needs of people looking for them, it seems to me that there should be more default persistence for the things. It would certainly encourage tutorial writing more than discouraging it, whereas right now it seems the opposite is the case.

I'm willing to be wrong about this. Somebody tell me how the current setup encourages the aggregation of good tutorials rather than causing them to be lost almost immediately and discouraging people from submitting more of them. If there's a good answer to this, I might write some more tutorials, but having had 50% of my own tutorials simply disappear (despite initial, and immediate, positive feedback from the community at large), I'm less than enthusiastic to put the effort into it again in the foreseeable future.

I bring this up to foster discussion and prompt some good ideas, or to get someone to point out something I've overlooked. I hope some constructive feedback is the result.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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