Ben Bullock

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• Commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN
  There is some kind of encoding bug at the moment: http://beta.metacpan.org/search?q=%E5%90%8D%E5%89%8D Looks like doubly-encoded UTF-8. If you want to go over any of your suggestions in detail, please join us at #metacpan on irc.perl.org I'd rather just send in a...
• Commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN
  Regarding the page flickering, can you tell me on which OS/browser this is happening? I don't see it with Firefox or Chrome. I'm not sure "flickers" is the right word, but the bits of the page wobble about as...
• Commented on Mojo ppl, what have you done?!
  Perl 5.8.9 was released two and a half years ago. (Sorry if this comment repeats, I submitted it before but it didn't appear.)...

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• Olaf Alders commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN

  I'm going to assume that everyone participating in this discussion has the best of intentions. If you took the time to comment with praise or suggestions for improvements, your feedback is welcome. :) This project is full of friendly faces. If you want to go over any of your suggestions in detail, please join us at #metacpan on irc.perl.org

• Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN

  There's something I've always wanted on CPAN search and which also seems to be missing on the new metacpan.org: sorting by last release date.

  This would be awesome to have. Often, the most recent module ends up being the best module implementing a given functionality.

• Olaf Alders commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN

  Excellent point. You can sort by release date on http://search.metacpan.org/#/search/dist/moose I expect that functionality will be added to http://beta.metacpan.org in the near future.

• Olaf Alders commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN

  Thanks for pointing that out.

  
  There's no email reporting at this point, but creating new issues is almost as easy: https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues

• Aristotle commented on Introducing metacpan.org - A better search for the CPAN

  It would be keen if the results page had a quick indicator of “dependency weight”, some kind of dot or bullet that is bigger and darker the “heavier” a distribution is. You’d have to recurse on dependencies, mind. Basically CPANDeps built in.