Here here! Let's start be removing as many features as possible. How about:
- Junk the chatterbox. If people want to chat they know where IRC is.
- Drop configurable nodelets. If people want a configurable set of links and widgets next to their Perlmonks view they can setup a Sidebar.
- Cancel SuperSearch. Just find a way to let Google index the site and link to that. Everyone's doing it.
- Offline The Past. Pick a cutoff date a couple years back and move everything older than that into cold-storage. Make it accessible if you must, but put it on a different machine.
I love PerlMonks, but the enormous feature creep has resulted in a site that's a hair's breadth away from unusable. Let's do one thing, host the best Perl disussions on the web, and do it well.
-sam
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