Just stumbled across this today...

When I click on any of the reviews in the Module Reviews section, I see, not the contents of the review, but metadata for the node. For example, the entry for the review of Acme::Apache::Werewolf by rob_au displays:

• node_iip: none
• package: 0
• type: modulereview
• core: 0
• nodeupdated: 2005-08-13 16:55:42
• reputation: 69
• locktime: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
• node_id: 307626
• author_user: rob_au
• hits: 2110
• title: Acme::Apache::Werewolf
• ucreatetime: 1069065933
• createtime: 2003-11-17 05:45:33
• postbonus: 1
• votescast: 69
• lockedby_user: none

The reviews in the Book Reviews section are displaying correctly.

Cheers,

id://11136579, doc://pack and mod://Text::CSV_XS no longer work in the search box. I just get redirected from https://www.perlmonks.org/ to https://perlmonks.org/.

id://11136579, doc://pack and mod://Text::CSV_XS still work in posts, though.

Perhaps broken by the Open redirects are disabled change?

I recently graduated to novice(?) and have been allocated some reputation points to bestow on other people. I read that there would be some +'s and -'s next to the posts in my threads. I've been unable to find them though but whether that's due to my mediocrity or your appallingly wonderful UI I'm not sure. I've tried reading around but either I'm too lazy or the explanations are too opaque.

Any chance of a link to a dumbed down version?

Regards, sbrothy.

Is there a way how to get the target link from a shortcut? I.e. I don't want to redirect to it, I just want to get the link back so I can open it myself.

I got this message yesterday

NodeReaper says I've reaped a node you considered: Re^3: Why does it seem as though Perl has the only community of friendly, non patronizing or demeaning, programmers? What is with every one else? -- because: REAP: No need for anonymous insults

Alas, the post was unreaped and there is no entry in janitation history by whom and why...

Voting inside longer sub-threads with many posts is easy, you select ++ or -- and hit return.

But the request will return at the very beginning of the page and you need to scroll again to were you started.

actually there are anchors allowing to return from where you voted, like

?node_id=11135115#11135141

one only needs to isolate the ID from the radio's name <input type="radio" name="vote__11135141" value="-1">

Minor complication is that one can vote on multiple nodes at the same time, identifying the one where the request was triggered might require some JS trickery.

update

In hindsight, implementing to vote with an AJAX request might be the better approach tho. It wouldn't require to reload the whole page and fiddling with the current vote mechanism.

Can someone with the proper access and authority please look into this? Thank you.

G'day All,

I had some problems with the rendering of the title of a post. I can't find any specific information: Super Search with keywords like title is not particularly useful. I suspect this may be documented somewhere; I hoping someone can point me to that.

The specific problem occurred with "Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE]". That node's title currently renders as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [ZERO WIDTH SPACE].

Originally, the end of that was [&#8203;] which rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [].

I didn't think that entity references were honoured in titles; however, this indicated I was wrong (or so I believed). I thought that would be an easy fix and changed the end part to [&amp;#8203;]; but that rendered as: Re^2: @ARGV ignores quotes [&amp;#8203;].

As I couldn't work out the apparently contradictory behaviour, I simply took a pragmatic approach and changed the end to [ZERO WIDTH SPACE] (its current value).

Any help with this would be appreciated.

How do I get "Newest Nodes" to permanently show more than the last 24 hours of questions again (i.e., get back to the way it was before I cleared "last checked time")?

Due to "popular demand", PerlMonks now supports Markdown formatting for writeups. Note: Initially, Markdown is only supported for comments (aka notes). If everyone likes it, we will extend the capability to root-level posts as well (SOPW posts, etc.)

Some relevant past discussions:

• Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
• Wiki-Style syntax for posting
• better wiki-like shortcuts.
• Markdown syntax useful to the Monastery?

Sorry it took me a minute to implement this feature. :-D

To enable the use of Markdown in your comments, go to your User Settings and change the "Format writeups as:" selection from 'conventional' to 'markdown'.

Be aware that this is a global setting. You can't select the format at the time you submit the writeup.

When you are looking at a writeup entry box (textarea), you will see a short note immediately above it indicating which markup you can use.

This change was actually relatively simple to implement, since modules for converting markdown to HTML already existed.
I would like to know if there is any demand for any other Lightweight markup languages.
For example, we could add support for Textile or some flavor of wiki text.

This is a great idea for a "Grafana-ish" community dashboard collating metrics from various Perl sites and communities. Should PerlMonks offer to participate? (Sadly the author did not mention us in a list of resources he contemplates metering initially.)

I was looking for how to insert actual < and > on a comment and saw that under the comment box there is this (tags reducted):

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in ... tags not ... tags. In fact, ... tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (... chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible editor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.

But the links either lead to nowhere (1st one) or lead to super-search with no results. Perhaps it can lead to a static page so as to reduce the burden to the site?

bw, bliako

Please open ?node_id=3989;BIT=www.google.com and click Search

I see

2021-05-07 and 2018-06-14 (searched 89.07% of DB).

90%? seriously?