Also, unlike devshed, it doesn't allow people to fill up screen space with useless avatars so we can all concentrate on what's being said.
I think you hit one usability feature on the head here! The basically spartan interface of Perlmonks is perhaps one of its best features. Putting statistics, rankings and avatars in the threads makes them far harder to read and follow. The content intensive design of the Monastery is one of its great features.

jdtoronto

In reply to Re^4: plz replace this super ugly & damned bad board by a supergood one: take open source [of course] by jdtoronto
in thread plz replace this super ugly & damned bad board by a supergood one: take open source [of course] by perl_lover_girl

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