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The web is built to last
- stonogo 12y agoThis is the biggest load of shit I've seen posted in ages. I normally don't get angry about blog posts, but this is offensively misinformed, and it's actively spreading baseless, incorrect garbage. Web applications are nonce activities. Let's see him download 2012's version of foursquare and run that. Even open-source web projects suffer from unfixable bit rot at a massive scale, and that's BEFORE you start accounting for how much shit you'll take from current valley denizens for daring to use e.g. CGI. There's a reason nothing like http://www.oldversion.com http://www.oldversion.com exists for web apps: they do not last. They are fragile, transient beasts, and pretending otherwise is setting yourself up for failure.
- zz1 12y agoOr maybe the reason why nothing like oldversion.com exists ofr web apps is something else. Like: * Apps are update because of security fixes. * Open source web apps aren't viable[1] [1] https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-require-federated-hosting.html https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-ap...