CPAN-Forum - Niggles, comments and suggestions...

Posted on Sat Feb 12 22:41:00 2005 by adrianh
Niggles, comments and suggestions...

I've been playing with the site for a little bit, some random comments:

- http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/all doesn't have the content of the posts, which pretty much removes its utility as far as I'm concerned.

- No option that I can find to view a list of the threads of a module, rather than the individual posts. When you come to a module for the first time its hard to get an overview of what's been discussed without this.

- An RSS feed that just showed new threads would also be useful.

- The URLs in links are currently all converted to lower case, which breaks some URLs. See http://www.cpanforum.com/posts/100 for an example.

- The rollover colours! My eyes! They burn! :-)

- I think the RSS feeds should have titles based on the module name rather than all being "CPAN Forum".

- The list of available HTML tags seems over-restrictive. Things like emphasised text, blockquote, lists, etc. would all be v. useful.

- Even better IMO would be to have the /option/ to use Markdown. That way you can generate nice XHTML, have something that looks sane in the e-mail notifications, and have something that's easier to type.

- The module-specific RSS feeds all appear to be empty ?

- When you enter a module name for a new post, and there is only a single module that matches, it would be nice to skip the select box page.

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