It's my uninformed opinion that all the bitching about 4 makes it sound like the wider fediverse should just fork at 3 and backport the few good things/security fixes. Any reason why this is not a viable option?
@elfi same reason any fork is a pain in the ass, basically any attempt to bring things over from mainline will become an exhausting conflict ridden nightmare
except even worse this time because the entire frontend got tossed out and redone, basically
@KS Okay yeah, backporting stuff to the old frontend would be especially troublesome