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Google is doing the right thing that would be typical for an internet company. For any product they would need to have maintainers/owners who are continuously u

by SriniK 15y ago

Google is doing the right thing that would be typical for an internet company. For any product they would need to have maintainers/owners who are continuously updating and monitoring. It is completely waste of time to maintain unused stuff.

alanh 15y ago
You are making a false assumption. I personally use the FeedBurner API to keep track of feed subscribers, for example, and it was deprecated yesterday.
- orillian 15y ago
  ....and you still have 3 years to use it! (granted no more development will be done on the API.) So over the next three years which is like an eon in web years you can look for an alternative. Frankly Goolge might even bring out an alternative.
  - alanh 15y ago
    Eh, don’t forget that migrating users from one feed to another would be a huge pain in the ass.
- tonfa 15y ago
  Yes, and it is deprecated, not shutdown: "we have no current plans to remove existing functionality".
  - alanh 15y ago
    Fair point, but isn’t that basically what deprecation is? A communication that something will likely stop working at some point?
    - lurker19 15y ago
      Yes, so you may have to spend some of that money you have not been paying Google for Feedburner, and use it to build or buy a replacement.
    - tonfa 15y ago
      Not always, it might also mean they moved it into maintenance mode.