@freemo hi 👋, I'm one of the new users who is very thankful to you for running this server! I noticed Qoto is reportedly running an old 2020 version of Mastodon. Do you have any plans to upgrade? Is it an issue due to the customisations?
@Odaeus qoto is running a forked version of mastodon with additional features not found in traditional mastodon. New features will be added as time goes on.
@obi I was thinking more about the many bug fixes and smaller improvements that have been made rather than feature parity. Security vulnerabilities in particular come to mind.
@obi that would be 2 years worth of changelogs to review... release 3.5.3 alone has 7 security fixes. The number of other fixes runs into hundreds in the last two years. It's completely standard practice to keep software up-to-date without focusing on whether an individual fix brings a visible benefit. Without regular updates it may not even be possible to incorporate any important fixes that come along.
@obi I'm not assuming, I'm asking because this info does not appear to be publicly available beyond the version number reported by the server.
@Odaeus https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto/activity activity logs if that helps.
@obi thanks! That's what I was looking for but failed at finding. From the commit log I can see dependencies are automatically updated, which is great, but the core is rarely changed in comparison to the primary git repo. It looks like there's an occasional backport but I haven't cross-referenced. Of course, there's some work on the additional features that QOTO supports.
@Odaeus I understand your stance. As is the case with Forks. For me, it is about the features. But hey, that's just me. The beauty of choice is incontrovertible 😀
@obi 🤷 it's not about the features. It's the hundreds of fixes and small improvements that are going on in the mainline. Trying to maintain a fork in this way will become progressively harder the more it diverges.