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.
- Open a post and click "Sign In" to comment, you get a login page WITHOUT the "wordpress" option... more on that later.
- The actual options on this page are
- Movable Type - Broken unless you reset password and then you still can't post
- Open ID - what? go to their page and they tell you to use wordpress or Google... all non simple... can I just get a Login Please?
- LiveJournal - get a can't call name on object reference blah blah blah error
- Vox - wast that a blog site at one time, where do you get a login?
- Google... error... not supported
- Now if you click "Sign In" from the main page, you do see a WordPress login and you can login. So if you commented to this post, congratulations on having a wordpress login where you logged in from the main page.
Don't believe me look at the bug reports: https://github.com/blogs-perl-org/blogs.perl.org/issues
How long has as blogs.perl.org been bleeding the community?
Perl is obviously having trouble getting fresh blood... this is how our community dies drop by drop.
I blog about Perl.
Guess it's fixed? At least sign-in worked fine for me.
Could I ask, are you volunteering to help out, or are you just moaning? - either are fine, but your post isn't clear on if you have a solution
My intent was to raise awareness to the users of blogs.perl.org
I don't have enough background into blogs.perl.org, movabletype, current maintainers ( if any )... to propose a solution but I know some people in the community probably have a good idea about what needs to be done.
My first question: is someone maintaining this site and if so, is there a resource issue?
I understand it's very frustrating. My suggestion is to open your own blog. Preferably on your own domain. Even a static blog with Disqus as a commenting system would work. Once you have that and posted an article send a link to editors at perlweekly.com. We'll help you get the word out.
How about we migrate this domain to WordPress with all the existing content and users and place adds on here then divert the revenue to fuel Perl growth.
Ok. Why don't you do that. Let me know when you want a dump of the current data so that you can migrate it all into Wordpress.
test test test...
One more test.
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