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A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As

A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

userbinator 9y ago
If the trends of "renovation" I've seen on other sites are any indication, the Flash requirement will disappear but so will a bunch of other useful features. :-( IMHO if they can't change things without removing functionality, they should just leave well enough alone. They don't have to "support" the old version or do anything special with it; just leave it alone in its current, working, state.
- angus-prune 9y ago
  But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.
  - userbinator 9y ago
    Of course they can. Flash isn't a cloud service. All "deprecated" and "EoL" means is that Adobe isn't going to change the product or provide support. Google could do the same. It will keep working the way it has always worked. There's millions if not more sites out there still with Flash content. I have a collection of SWFs (mostly games) and they still work too. The "this technology is old/deprecated/EoL/unfashionable/etc., let's just delete it all and provide no equivalent replacement, nevermind the fact that it's been working well" attitude is what really pisses off users, including me. Also somewhat like me, they don't really care what technology is as long as it works --- all they see is something which used to work is now broken and they can't do anything about it.
shoover 9y ago
Naturally. Portfolios are the reason I use the product. They give you a quick view of each symbol on the right at finance.google.com, a link to chart each symbol, and the ability to chart the portfolio as a whole. It was all convenient and solid for years. Bye bye.
r721 9y ago
>Portfolios deprecation information: https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en
- unixhero 9y ago
  Yahoo finance has portfolios
sitruc 9y ago
I was a tad sad seeing that the other day. I have used it for 10 years.. I guess I will just have to use my investment site. Logging in is such a pain just to get a general update.
- unixhero 9y ago
  Yahoo finance has portfolios

userbinator 9y ago

If the trends of "renovation" I've seen on other sites are any indication, the Flash requirement will disappear but so will a bunch of other useful features. :-( IMHO if they can't change things without removing functionality, they should just leave well enough alone. They don't have to "support" the old version or do anything special with it; just leave it alone in its current, working, state.

angus-prune 9y ago
But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.
- userbinator 9y ago
  Of course they can. Flash isn't a cloud service. All "deprecated" and "EoL" means is that Adobe isn't going to change the product or provide support. Google could do the same. It will keep working the way it has always worked. There's millions if not more sites out there still with Flash content. I have a collection of SWFs (mostly games) and they still work too. The "this technology is old/deprecated/EoL/unfashionable/etc., let's just delete it all and provide no equivalent replacement, nevermind the fact that it's been working well" attitude is what really pisses off users, including me. Also somewhat like me, they don't really care what technology is as long as it works --- all they see is something which used to work is now broken and they can't do anything about it.

shoover 9y ago

Naturally. Portfolios are the reason I use the product. They give you a quick view of each symbol on the right at finance.google.com, a link to chart each symbol, and the ability to chart the portfolio as a whole. It was all convenient and solid for years. Bye bye.

r721 9y ago

>Portfolios deprecation information: https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en

unixhero 9y ago
Yahoo finance has portfolios

sitruc 9y ago

I was a tad sad seeing that the other day. I have used it for 10 years.. I guess I will just have to use my investment site. Logging in is such a pain just to get a general update.

unixhero 9y ago
Yahoo finance has portfolios