django description updates

handbook/troggle/trogsimpler.html

@@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ fail to keep up with the rest of the world. Right now we need to get ourselves o
 so that we can use an LTS release which has current security updates. This is 
 <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/internals/release-process/#supported-versions-policy">more urgent for django</a> than for Linux. In Ubuntu terms we are on 18.04 LTS (Debian 10) which has no free maintenance updates from 2023. <span style="color:red">We should plan to migrate troggle from django to another framework in about 2025. See stroggle below.</span>]
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+<p indent=20px>[ UPDATE Jan.2025: Django is still in 
+<a href=https://medium.com/@simeon.emanuilov/is-django-still-relevant-in-2024-1e68d2b13408">rude health</a>, 
+and showing no signs of slackening support: "a user base of approximately 42,094 customers and a 32.80% 
+<a href="https://6sense.com/tech/web-framework/django-market-share">market share</a>, Django leads, outpacing frameworks like Ruby on Rails... This data suggests not just survival but a thriving ecosystem." and 
+"Django’s commitment to backwards compatibility has been a significant advantage". It seems that Django may have decades ahead of it. It is more likely that we will want to move for other reasons: such are rebuilding everything on top of a map-based platform, not because Django becomes unsupportable.
+We are curently running Django 5.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 in development and it is fine. Database rebuilds are now 40 <em>seconds</em> on modern hardware.
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 Things this [Rad's] solution doesn't solve:
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@@ -179,6 +185,7 @@ a matter of urgency. No one should have to imagine where the path to a file will
 We need a file uploading system to put things in the right place; and this would help photos too.]
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+<p>[ Update Jan.2025 The cave description editing is now much improved, simplified and documented with Martin's photo-uploading and online HTML-editing capabilities added a couple of years ago.]
 
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