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cutlass2006
<p>I think as with all websites, there is a bit that can be improved on PerlMonks.</p>
<p>The suggestions in this thread though seem to vacillate between evolution versus revolution. For those who want revolution, perhaps go make your own website ... even better if PerlMonks provided a data api to repurpose content to that site.</p>
<p> As for evolution, there is plenty that could be done e.g. what about starting off simply
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<li>provide options like textarea editing as a progressivly disclosed option</li>
<li> interact with larger community via twitter, delicious, web irc</li>
<li>ratonalize site navigation ... lots could be tweaked here </li>
<li>tweak content information especially categorization perhaps using colors</li>
<li>expose data via RESTful interface</li>
<li>add a 'Getting started with Perl' </li>
<li>freshen up the design ... higher readability</li>
<li>add appropriate high level bifurcations (like here is the route to Perl6 ) ... actually, I think posts could benefit from tagging (aka delicious)
</ul>
Lastly I think PerlMonks could learn a trick or three from other sites ... for example <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/perl" target="_new">stackoverflow</a> is a good place to start looking.
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<p>Of course, everyone has their own opinion of what should be done ... and 'design by committee' sometimes makes something no one likes, but I think there are a number of things that could be done to make the site more accessible to all users, newbie or otherwise</p>
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