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From all I can tell it's on purpose. Someone asked about a month ago about the canary as well, and @Alaskaball@hexbear.net commented that "nothing had changed about [keeping it updated unless something happened]"
We can probably assume something has happened. Incidentally it's about the same time another admin, Lyudmila left the site - for completely unrelated reasons though.
I just had food poisoning, my own goose is pretty cooked rn and it isnt very fun right now that i can barely stomach white bread and bananas.. Anyways please stop making assumptions on the fly that the site's been compromised just because we forget to update the thing. It's all manual input and one of the lower items in priority that's supposed to be updated monthly, manually. Don't go into a panic again when we most likely forget next month, or the month after that, or thereon. Just ask an admin to update the thing.
... that's literally what a warrant canary is. Sorry to hear you haven't been well, and it's good to know that's all that's happening, but you're literally complaining that it's functioning as intended.
The entire point of a warrant canary is that we have to make assumptions because legally you won't be allowed to communicate honestly with us. If you just "forget" to update the warrant canary repeatedly, you'd be better off removing it entirely rather than repeatedly sending an unintended message.
Like you're pretty much hitting the big red button that says "ALARM: THE SITE IS COMPROMISED" and then getting snippy at people for "assuming" the site is compromised
And if it's removed there'll be another post talking about the site being compromised.
So? You're going to be dealing with it every month the way it's going, so if it's really so inconvenient to you when you basically tell your users that the site is compromised and they take it seriously, just remove the canary, take the hit once, and be done with it.
I'll forward your idea
But you had already been asked a month ago, and did nothing. That's why I got worried and thought people should be aware.
That's the entire point of the warrant canary. Don't call it "freaking out and spreading panic" when I react to it functioning as intended. Alarmism it is not.
Consider making an announcement about being annoyed about the warrant canary say you're going to take it down, if it ticks you off so much. It's not really a big deal to me, but I know some people care about it.
Also my condolences about your food poisoning, that can be tough. Hope you are recovering well.