• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    WordPress has automatic updates for core, plugins and themes. I’ve never had any problems with it, running a very basic WordPress site. Would something like that be possible for Lemmy?

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      I doubt it tbh. A static wordpress site is infinitely less complex than something that constantly needs to take in and distribute content from/to thousands of endpoints with potentially many different api versions on the other side.

      Im not that deep into activitypub stuff but from my understanding, automatic updates are not really a good idea in this case.

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        5 months ago

        Federation doesnt have many breaking changes anymore. The bigger problem is if a database migration goes wrong, then there should be an admin around to fix it manually. Im sure Wordpress has the resources for much more thorough testing so these things dont happen.

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        5 months ago

        Do you know what “infinitely” means? Wordpress is slightly less complex and although I don’t like working with it, it is capable of a lot more than you give it credit for. I suppose I’m thankful you didn’t say “exponentially less complex”.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Yes, I could easily configure our Podman containers to auto-update, but given how there have been significant breaking bugs in Lemmy releases before, I think it’s better to not automate it.