I just knew I'd be doing this. I hoped I was wrong and that she'd take responsibility.. which she has in one tiny way.. sort of, just hide the issue again by fixing the images.. not well.. update the instance?

I do not take kindly to people who run web facing software, and let it get so out of date. I'd say I was more than as nice as any other person would be, when it comes to someone's inaction that puts at risk everyone all because you won't update, haven't updated for over two and half years.

Life happens, and running a website, running a server, running a community is not for everyone AT ALL. I don't blame Anna one bit about falling out of love with the fediverse and wanting to do things like maintaining. Hosting simply is not for everyone and the tiniest of tasks can be big tasks for one's brain to be able to take.

I should know. My ADHD and Autistic ass is a fucking gold medalist in that sort of thing.

And it's why I refuse to run my blog and site and all on Wordpress or any sort of CMS or use any sort of coding frameworks/plugins that all need updating for the sake of security. When I want to be able to leave my site and everything for a xouple years and things still be alright.

Running my own server setup instead of just shared hosting kind of goes against that, but it takes me hardly any time at all to just SSH in on my phone using Juice SSH, and just run apt to update/upgrade/autopurge frequently and all. And anything that does pop up now and again, isn't a common thing, so it's so easy.

Mastodon wise, that goes against that even more, that especially with that I've customised things.. an update could break that. But I've made it easy to be able to put things how I want it. Have a copy of your views haml files and everything, with only the edits you've made and all in a way you can understand where they go to quickly copy back over and rebuild if something with an update overwrites.

But still, it's easy saying that when I fucking am loving Mastodon, that it's literally a nicer place than Twitter, though be it with a fucking messed up wild west out there if you don't block it. Maybe that enthusiasm won't be the same for me either after four years or so that witches.live has been around that Anna has ran it for.

But.. maybe life does hit and something becomes a few months delayed from updating rather than within the week or so.

But beyond six months.. if I was that out of the loop that updating is that much of a chore for me, there'd be no chance I'd be keeping it live.

But a release that's two years, 8 months old, and then having this right go at someone for pleading for you to take responsibility.. this is out right appalling.

Again, life happens, and hosting isn't for everyone. But if you are hosting things, keep things updated. YOU are not the only person that is at risk of being impacted by your lack of action.. and 2000+ accounts, with 500 active users.. it is indefensible.

Client side javascript libraries such as jQuery getting out of date with known XSS vulnerabilities always being the case. SQL injection, or well Mastodon doesn't use MySQL but the point still stands with anything that communicates with a database.

Outdated website software is a possible risk to those logging in, the server itself, to visitors, to other sites and servers and people that have never set foot on your site etc because of how outdated software can enable your site to be used as an attacker to others.

HOSTING is not something to take lightly. And if you cannot deal with keeping things at least reasonably up to date, through good and bad, hosting at least things that need updating is not for you.

Keep to running a simple personal site or something on a shared provider that keeps the server and everything itself updated for you, which can mean you may literally have absolutely nothing needed to update yourself at all if you don't depend on things that need updates to not become a security risk all the damn time.. cough jQuery, cough.

I don't blame you one bit in regards to your feelings and everything that's the reasoning behind this.

But please, TAKE IT DOWN if you aren't going to update. And prolonging updates is exactly what causes things to be a bigger deal.

But well you know what, enough now said about that part.

Onto this, how you responded. As per my response, this is so fucked up this.
https://toots.hwl.li/@jase/108524857366663452

I actually expected it that you'd down play the big deal that is letting this get so outdated. But i did not expect you to latch on implying I'm a Nazi because you've been listening to too much Russian propaganda.

I'll continue to show support for my Ukrainian friends. And fuck you that you're obviously saying this shit too right into Ukrainian people's faces.

Nationalism can fuck itself, but this, this is fucked up.

So I'm sorry to everyone on witches.live, but this I cannot not block for.