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> Is it really that much effort to maintain something?

yes

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921198 for start

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lol so a backup system was brittle enough that it needs a guy constantly working on it? which implies I need to constantly update?
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Motte: if you stop maintaining a project, it won’t become unusable in six months.

Bailey: maintaining a popular project is not that much work.

What?

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