Perlmonks is a bit of an embarrassment

The site is painfully slow, not really a good advertisement for Perl as a web implementation language. And now the latest revelation is that passwords were stolen because they were stored in plaintext. I hate to say it, but perlmonks is probably a significant reason why Perl is a language in danger of dying out. Not just the technical issues (although perlmonks is a painfully difficult site to use), but cultural as well as there's a rather hierophantic attitude on the site, maybe no worse than at similar sites of other technologies, but my impression is that it is.