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> which powers their onlineshop or blog or whatever they run 50 years of support doesn't make sense for these usecases, as the world keeps moving on around the
by Denvercoder9 3y ago
> which powers their onlineshop or blog or whatever they run
50 years of support doesn't make sense for these usecases, as the world keeps moving on around them. A blog that still looks like it's 2008 won't sell your business in 2023. A webshop from 2013 won't accept the popular payment methods of 2023 in large parts of the world. If these products will be updated anyway, at a certain point building on an old stack causes more work than it saves.
- blueflow 3y agoI maintain the infra for some over a decade old http applications. They are not for selling or self-promotion using the newest shit. These sites are for getting a job done. And users actually enjoy it very much when the http form they use daily stays the same for over a decade.
- 6510 3y agoThe most requested feature: Put it back the way it was.
- Denvercoder9 3y agoThere's a big difference between "over a decade old" and "50 years" though. I'm not contending that there's a sizeable amount of 10+ year old applications that are still useful, but I'd wager that their number is inversely correlated with their age; and that 50 years is too long of a support term to be sensible. E.g. HTTP is less than 35 years old. And it's not just because the outside world is moving on, if you use a distro from 2000 for 50 years you'll run into problems in 2038 because it still uses 32-bit time_t.
- rakoo 3y agoA sizeable part of the web is not about selling stuff but providing a service, information, exchanges. Consumption and capitalism is incompatible with stability and longevity, so of course tending only to it will not work. In 50 years, we'll still want a forum-like to discuss about the latest shenanigans of then-Elon Musk.
- j16sdiz 3y ago> . A blog that still looks like it's 2008 won't sell your business in 2023. blogs can be personal, or something of historical interest