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I see this Jepsen link posted all the time. People: PLEASE don't use outdated software. MongoDB has made mistakes and they are public about their data issues on https://www.mongodb.com/alerts. MongoDB 4.2.6 is old and I believe it's approaching EoL based on https://www.mongodb.com/support-policy/lifecycles

I'm not going to push for you to use MongoDB but am merely trying to provide some context around that Jepsen analysis.

That's why I've added the last part. Mongodb highlights old Jepsen analysis' on their page (https://www.mongodb.com/jepsen), but they never got around to ask them for another analysis to show things are so much better with MongoDB 5 or 6? Yeah. Sure. People are free to believe whatever they want, I'll continue to highlight the best info available.

Based on that lifecycle doc, the 4.2 line is already EOL, and 4.4 will be soon.

> That they haven't paid for a thorough follow-up analysis after their supposed fix is all one needs to know

As much fun as Jepsen is, I'd probably not follow up with a company that turned my product into a mockery. I enjoy the hell out of reading that report as an outsider, and I personally would be a repeat customer, but I can see how a company might not love the writeup.

Sure, but to me that just looks like they have no faith in the supposed quality of their product. If they really fixed MongoDB there's nothing to fear. Aphyr is harsh, but fair.

Again, I can see why they would not be interested in engaging again. You can think that it's because they're afraid, but they also may have just really disliked the service they paid for.

So nothing has changed in the 3 years since that article?

I am not sure what's going on with Jepsen any more.

https://jepsen.io/analyses

there were zero done in 2021, two in early 2022 and even the footer copyright say 2022.

aphyr seems to still work on it, so probably just not that many companies who want to pay to get told the truth anymore: https://github.com/jepsen-io/jepsen

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