@slu #PrePAN had its fans and some tried to promote it, and as you can see there was some effort made to incorporate it into the #CPAN author lifecycle. But I don’t think it was ever more than a hobby project. Towards the end its code repository moved under the #MetaCPAN organization, but they never actually hosted the service or had much else to do with it.

@mjgardner I've never heard of #PrePAN before. Was it used much when it was running?
And good work removing dead links from the documentation.

The #PrePAN site for discussing #Perl module ideas prior to uploading to #CPAN went defunct some time ago.

References will be removed from future Perl documentation: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20305

I just opened a PR to remove references from #PAUSE, the system developers use to upload to CPAN: https://github.com/andk/pause/pull/385