blogs.perl.org... Perl's Death by 1,000 Cuts

Just trying to log into blogs.perl.org to comment on David Mertens' PDL features I'd like to see in Perl 6 was a huge pain in the ass... in fact just getting the login to work for this was also but I won't go there.

Imagine how many would-be contributors have been turned off by what is described below.

  1. Open a post and click "Sign In" to comment, you get a login page WITHOUT the "wordpress" option... more on that later.
  2. The actual options on this page ar…