2026-04-15 18:54 UTC
@MastodonEngineering I’ve noticed you supporting older versions like this before. OOI do you know why people don’t want to upgrade? Or is there some other reason you’re supporting old versions?
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@fox@social.hostnetwork.xyz 2026-04-15 19:22
@bnut @MastodonEngineering I can understand not updating cause mastodon is a pain to update but like keeping older branches alive is wackass. I wanted to see if I could sort by version on fedilist.com, which I couldnt, but I found something very shocking: Out of the top 10 biggest mastodon instances(by user), 4 use a version of 4.1.x💀💀💀
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@ClearlyClaire@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 15:46
@bnut @MastodonEngineering we support a few minor versions because updating from one to another is more involved than updating to a patch version (patch versions do not involve database migrations or updating system dependencies, for instance) of course, supporting older branches is more work, so we don't do that indefinitely