PHP 7.4 and Elgg 6
I use Textpattern for most sites, that looks like elgg on a bad day with 8, and I suspect over there they trust 8 as well as I do.
Given there are people not willing to use PHP8, why not make a 7.4 friendly version of recent Elggs.
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You must log in to post replies.Because PHP 7.4 is End-Of-Life and it is no longer supported. See https://www.php.net/supported-versions
When a PHP version is no longer supported why should we support it. It exposes your installation to potential security risks nobody is going to fix.
Also we might use newer features of PHP which aren't available in older versions. We're only a small team of volunteers and supporting the main version of Elgg is already a lot of work. Making a version for older PHP versions is just not doable.
Any real reason? Hard to believe it is ever supported, given the fact there is no money in it, it was once on store shelves, now it's a free drag download. There is no reason to feel motivated, I wonder if the programmers and site runners are paid.
I may agree 5 would be totally off,
The bad habit of theirs to remove good things and then place in something vulnerable is also plaguing