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I assume there's some technical problem with classic sites, but it doesn't seem to be described on the support.google site. Anyone know what the reason is?
by mkj 6y ago
I assume there's some technical problem with classic sites, but it doesn't seem to be described on the support.google site. Anyone know what the reason is?
- tyingq 6y agoClassic sites was based on Jotspot, which they acquired in 2006. I'm pretty sure it was Ruby/Rails at that time. I suspect sites, at some point, didn't make enough money to maintain a separate team with a skill set that wasn't common at Google. It take 16 months after the purchase before they relaunched it, though. So perhaps they had already rewritten it in a Google tech stack?
- snewman 6y agoCorrect. But the Google tech stack evolves, and so the codebase may now be based on obsolete internal technologies. (Source: worked at Google 2006 - 2010, was very slightly involved in helping the Jotspot team integrate)
- rasz 6y agoThe main technical problem with them is nobody at Google was ever promoted for ordinary maintenance.