When challenges arise, sometimes your response to the problem will require adaptations. Life — and online offerings — sometimes take unexpected turns.
Related posts are currently unavailable. 😞
I created this site as a journal… simply a place where I could share photos and my thoughts. At the end of every post for the past 15+ years you could find a “related posts” offering. I may have been the only one that used it, but it was my favorite thing about having posted for such a long period of time.
Upon publishing, I’d read the new post and often fall in the wayback machine rabbit hole by clicking on one of the related posts offerings displayed below the current post. I’d see a photo and think, “OH! I remember that!” That’s where the clicky-clicky started and reading the old stuff was more fun to me than any other aspect of whatifitdid.com.
Because of the current state of technology — where hackers move faster than developers — that option had to be removed.
I tried adapting first.
I installed at least 5 different options to display related posts and my security plugin flagged them all as a potential threat. Reading further, there’s been an exploit found that’s present in all similar options and no patches have been developed yet to stop the vulnerability.
I had to move on, but I’m hopeful for the future.
Rather than risk the vulnerability, I simply disabled related posts for the time being. If you enjoyed that option too, here’s hoping the code will be patched soon so that bad actors can move on to something else to exploit. 🤬
Now you know: Chinstrap penguins take more than 10,000 micro-naps a day, lasting an average of 4 seconds, for a total of more than 11 hours of daily sleep.