@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba yes, and the issue is "what happens to old abandoned sites that still work?" you can't keep software up-to-date if the admin isn't managing it anymore.

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc Right. So you were using a computer system that someone else was letting you use for free. They just turned their computer off, and now you’re mad at them. Okay.

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba that's not what the issue is and you know it. it's not as simple as "someone turned their computer off". it's about the ecosystem that's about to be inaccessible.

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc Maybe don’t build an ecosystem on a computer you have absolutely no control over?

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba so, the web shouldn't exist? ok, that seems reasonable

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc All my Websites still work. Somehow I found a way to do it without making calls to random, anonymous machines that they might turn off with no notice. Huh.

@rotatingskull @sc @Mirzaba have you ever visited someone else's website, or do you only ever load your own websites?

@trwnh @Mirzaba @sc You got me. I never visit anyone else’s Websites. Bye.

@rotatingskull @trwnh @sc
uhh...
that escalated quickly.
jfc

@Mirzaba 🤷

@Mirzaba @sc @rotatingskull in other words: it's about the computers that are still on, but unmaintained and frozen in time, that will be inaccessible because they depend on something that no longer exists. it's about the new people who will be unable to gain entry to an otherwise-working network of old websites. forums, comment forms, etc etc, all technically online but inoperable because of one ubiquitous dependency installed over a decade ago.