Lantern CMS
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lived 1,421 days
Still serves one dentist's website. Nobody remembers the admin password.
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1,421 days
born died
Autopsy
- Cause of death
- A better tool shipped
- Stack recovered
- Last words
“fix login (really this time)”final commit · 2 February 2015
- Mood at death
- Denial
- Lines of code
- 18,420
Obituary
Lantern was a content management system written in PHP in the spring of 2011, when writing your own content management system was still considered a reasonable weekend.
It grew a template language, a plugin folder, and a user table with one row. By 2014 every client it was built for had moved to a hosted page builder, and the commits thinned to one a season.
The last one is dated 2 February 2015. One installation is still running on a shared host. It belongs to a dentist, and it has not been updated since.
What it taught me
Software outlives the interest of whoever wrote it. Write the admin password down before the interest goes.