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False equivalence. That the creators of various PHP blogging platforms sucked at security does not invalidate the poster's point that a self-hosted CMS with a s
by mickeyp 1y ago
False equivalence. That the creators of various PHP blogging platforms sucked at security does not invalidate the poster's point that a self-hosted CMS with a simple comment system is indeed much simpler and easier to reason about.
- rokkamokka 1y agoI suppose it's rather the "without maintenance" part. Had everyone updated their WordPress sites the problem would've been much less.
- InMice 1y agoThe wordpress core can be kept up to date but the vulnerabilities from plugins, relying on fixes and updating plugins i think was more the problem than the core. In the 2010s if you left a wordpress blog unattended even with the official default filter plugin it would fill with spam comments. I dont know if thats still a problem.
- robinsonb5 1y agoMy own blog - which gets maybe a couple of posts a year these days, and almost no audience - had 59 spam comments so far today. It really is time I turned off comments.
- InMice 1y agoSame here with any blog ive ever hosted