I am surprised that CPAN/PAUSE doesn't seem to have a preview facility to check that the pod looks okay on the internet.

I'm surprised you are surprised.

If you ever uploaded something to PAUSE, you would have noticed that distributions aren't processed instantly. Instead, there's a batchjob running in the background processing recent uploads. Being able to "preview" pods means processing distributions needs to be done real time. Which would require more resources server side, as suddenly one has to scale against peak loads, instead of being able to average the processing time.

Considering the limited advantage (IMO, close to nill) of doing the processing real time, I'm not surprised noone has donated the hardware (and time to change the software) to enable this.

But you can always talk to Andreas about donating hardware and time.

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