Bad quality but good feels.

I manage a WordPress site hosted on SiteGround for a friend. The website keeps going down due to updates of some sort or another, and I'm trying to resolve this issue.

SiteGround forces major and minor auto-updates at least every 3 days (if available), and offers the option to autoupdate plugins (which I have on). Inside of the WordPress admin page, none of the plugins are set to auto-update, and I can see some offering to update individually/manually.

My question is this: what is the intended update model for WordPress? Should I just set everything to autoupdate to the extent possible? Although I'm facing issues now, my other software experiences tell me this is a bad idea. I'm used to "update when you want or need a new feature, but nothing will break if you don't", but is this just not how WordPress was designed?

Thanks!

Community page says there are 11 posts. When actually viewing the community I see 3. Did they get deleted or is there a bug somewhere?

Solution: Enable "View seen posts" in account settings.

I was going to delete due to the flash glare, but on second thought it looked kinda grimy. Meter boxes right outside of an art store.

The print preview is taking about 2 minutes to generate in Firefox, and for the last 15 seconds the entire Firefox window becomes unresponsive. I am only "printing" to a PDF to save, and I have no printers connected to my (modern) laptop.

When I tried on Chrome for comparison, it takes about 30 seconds (still a ridiculous amount of time) but without the freezing behavior.

I tried setting print.prefer_system_dialog to false (which does not generate a preview that I can see), but Firefox still takes just as long to pop up the system dialog and the window still freezes.

I only really care about fixing the problem with Firefox. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks!

Info:

• Mozilla Firefox 121.0
• Google Chrome 120.0.6099.129
• 11th gen Intel laptop on Arch Linux

Clean little tag I saw on a fallen pole.

I am getting an error when uploading an image from a local file:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Even after the error the file name appears in the image name section, but when posted no image is actually included. I have seen another similar post to this about a month ago, but OP said issue was fixed (not the case for me on Linux and Firefox). For what it's worth, the issue also appears on Photon (in addition to standard UI).