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Yay, I have to rewrite + design a 15-20 year old website 🎉

Originally written in, God knows what version of php, HTML and JS by a Java dev, and patched every other year when something broke or a new feature was needed, every time by someone new...
Some years ago the system was moved from a Windows host to Ubuntu and that was a nightmare in its own, because of all the hard-coded paths...

Welp, at least some fucker found another fucker who is willing to create a new design for the site, so that's off my plate...

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  • 6
    At least you're able to rewrite it. The norm with such projects is being told to "just make it work with the minimal changes possible, we can't justify a rewrite."
  • 2
    I was required to maintain a website with an extensive Perl backend. It had a LOT of issues. So I ended up wrapping the Perl code into a PHP site running Joomla. I do not envy the next maintainer of that site. Poor bastards.
  • 2
    I'm jealous. It sounds like a satisfying job to rewrite a fossil like that :)
  • 4
    Rewriting and redesigning from scratch is always the best situation to be in, imho.
  • 0
    ah I see, you aree, and I am you
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