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[The Lane Hackers]

The Compatibility Calculator was being actively updated by an automated process. @Wildkins was right, changing the architecture of techcompat did break things.

The developer of the Mactan Network is, per this thread, not actively maintaining, let alone updating and rebuilding this decade-old website. A fix would be if we have the time and energy to hack a fix to the Compatibility Calculator, but that would require completely re-engineering not just the interpretive functions, but the architecture of the databases generated from techcompat.cfg and all the functions that go towards calculating and displaying the results. Do you know what was at the centre of the largest-ever international IT outage caused by the CrowdStrike software? Regular expressions. You know what the Compatibility Calculator is built on? Regular expressions.

Simply put, this dev change really cooked us, though that's not a first ?

A better and simpler solution would certainly be someone, not necessarily within LH~, stepping forward and building a better, more modern, future-proof alternative. Or just use the table.

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