You're not going mad. Andy Lester wrote a post titled Perl must decentralize, diversify and colonize and among his suggestions (" How you can help?") was

Start an alternative to perlmonks.org. Perlmonks is a fine site, but it's long in the tooth, daunting to newbies, and frustrating to search. Surely there's a different way to have an online Perl forum that is better in many cases.