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.
@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
