It's been six months since the people running PerlMonks found out about the security breach (because the hackers published user info for everyone in the Saints in our Book). It's pretty unrealistic to expect any changes anytime soon and even less realistic to hope for e.g. OpenID support. And to be honest, the Perl community would likely be better served if time and energy was devoted to migrating PerlMonks to an easier to maintain platform at this point vs. continuing to make enhancements to the current codebase.