Reading up on Lobsters

A study of 1,112 tables in nine open-source apps finds 72.8% survive five years, but half of those that die vanish within three months.

Lobsters successfully moved from MariaDB to SQLite, cutting CPU and memory use, halving VPS costs, and keeping the site responsive after migration.

Lobsters commenters share uninvestigated programming hunches, including accessibility-first GUI toolkits, 32-bit pointers on 64-bit systems, property-based infrastructure, MUD-style chat, and user-controlled theming.