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use.perl.org is slow or down

acme on 2008-06-11T12:32:31

Very often use.perl.org is slow or down for me. It's also 1990s technology. My next few blog posts will be on my other blog. Let's see how it goes.

I agree: Planet Perl?

markjugg on 2008-06-11T14:47:23

I agree, yet I'm not one of the masses of people using a feed reader... I use use.perl as Perl aggregator, and when good bloggers drop of it, I have tended not to follow them elsewhere.

At the same time I'm frustrated that use.perl hasn't evolved as blogging platform and continues to suffer from things like poor titles and poor SEO.

Perhaps a "Planet" - style aggregator for Perl blogs would be a reasonable alternative. People could use the blogging platform of their choice, and one site would aggregate the blogs.

I'm not volunteering, just wishing.

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

hex on 2008-06-11T16:46:52

You mean like http://planet.perl.org/ ? (Where this entry is currently top :) )

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

hex on 2008-06-11T18:55:43

In addition, maybe TPF could allocate some money to a web designer. Compare Planet Perl to, say Planet Gnome....

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

markjugg on 2008-06-11T19:48:09

Ah yes... just like that. I'll have to see about getting included there... and start checking it regularly.

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

Yanick on 2008-06-11T22:52:23

I must say that the temptation to run a blog locally has been stronger since I've discovered Planet Perl. However, I've yet to discover who to contact/bribe to have a blog thrown in the gravitational well, or if it's a honor reserved to the Perl High Priests. Do anyone knows?

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

hex on 2008-06-11T23:53:54

Scroll way down to the bottom of the bar at the right and it says it's Robert and Ask.

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

Yanick on 2008-06-12T14:04:48

True. And following the trail seems to lead to webmaster at perl.org. Hmmm... I have a contact, I finally managed to get Angerwhale to run yesterday. It also seems like all the stars are aligning for something to happen. :-)

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

Yanick on 2008-06-12T16:48:57

Just to share the information: I've contacted the webmasters, and they don't take self-nominations for the Planet (darn). They instead periodically go through suggestions they received and, if a blog meet their criteria, add it to the heap.

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

hex on 2008-06-14T03:08:24

You may then be interested in Perlsphere.

Re:I agree: Planet Perl?

Alias on 2008-06-12T00:17:11

I dunno if I count as a high priest, but I'm not on there either.

1990s?

pudge on 2008-06-19T23:42:08

What ISN'T 1990s technology?

I don't even know what that MEANS.

Re:1990s?

stu42j on 2008-06-20T19:44:49

Well, for starters I don't see a single gradient or shiny/reflective icon. Plus, it is built on Perl which is so totally 1990.

Get back to me when you've rewritten use.perl in Ruby on Rails.

Re:1990s?

pudge on 2008-06-20T20:01:17

/me sheepishly apologizes