Can you really even call yourself a radical if you aren’t running services for defunct projects 20 years later
I think it was Patrick Henry who in 1775 said “Give me WordPress updates to support stale content in perpetuity or give me death!”
@legind There seems to be some kind of "Wordpress as static site generator" mode now, it would be key to have that simple to use. This points to a reason why I think the GNU/Linux distro model is so important: shared maintenance of the long tail, so that many small orgs can maintain their services without going bust.
@eighthave right. So for permanently archived sites that weren’t set up to statically generate initially, I’d welcome some immutable read-only database solution that could cheaply restore from backup regularly. Unfortunately lots of sites don’t even work when they can’t write to the db…
@legind I haven't used https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ but it sounds like it goes one better by generating the whole site as static files that can be hosted on any webserver or CDN. No database necessary.
@legind Yeah, I think the static site generator mode is useful only for content that is shown to users that are not logged into Wordpress. For it to work well, all info required for showing a page must be in the URL.
@eighthave huh. It seems pretty hard to flatten a lot of the dynamic content generated by interactive plugins on a WordPress site (think: a site event calendar) without some intentional effort specific to each plugin. But that level of dynamicism may be an inevitable sacrifice to the gods of archiving