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Some apps (like Signal) force you to upgrade or they eventually stop working. It's a terrible practice.

• josh2600 7y ago
  Right, because the alternative of having a broken user experience for a monotonically increasing set of your users isn’t terrible.
  • autoexec 7y ago
    How would letting people continue to use what's been working for them cause a "broken user experience"? Users should have to power to decide when and if to update. If their old version causes them technical problems or exposes them to security issues that is their business. Software can (and often should) offer auto-updates to make things easier for most users but it should respect a user's choice not to update. Especially when updates often introduce anti-features and/or disable existing features.
• judge2020 7y ago
  Can't speak for Signal but an app might reasonably require an update when the API also had a breaking change.