Redesigning the site is always planned and often gets worked on already (and quite a few changes are already in production). But, no, this change really has nothing to do with that.

I was thinking of creating a Quest for HTML design for the site, concentrating on how a thread with nested replies should be displayed. I mostly find PerlMonks' display of such to be easier to understand than most other forums I've looked at, but there are several specific places I think could be improved (space wasted by "[reply]" links, move votes to the bottom of nodes, more support for customizing via CSS, vertical lines to make nesting easier to trace, ...).

ar0n started a redesign, but it was more toward just CSS issues and, as I recall, wouldn't support non-CSS browsers as well as our current layout (and the more I learn about CSS, the more I think we shouldn't degrade the presentation for non-CSS browsers just because we are making customization via CSS easier).

Maybe we could make even Abigail happy about the site design ;)

Abigail

I suppose it would be fairly easy to support posting in plain text. Maybe adding something like <code> tags, but for text. Of course it's really nice to be able to download the code bits and leave the description. I have noticed that some people just post commented code on occasion.

Now supporting POD would be really interesting. It's been brought up before (by petdance), but no one seems to have followed up on it.

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Allolex

I'd like to see some cues taken from POD [Re: Convert Text to HTML Checkbox (POD)].

As for POD-style mark-up (C<code here>), no, I doubt such will be supported directly by PM any time soon. Feel free to write a POD-to-PerlMonks converter (base it on one of the existing POD-to-HTML converters) and compose in POD, convert, paste in HTML. Feel free to make it reversible. (: Feel free to teach it to cut'n'paste for you (there are already nodes here demonstrating that).

- tye