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How much staffing does a feature like that even require? It's not like it even requires any maintenance at this point. They could just leave it alone.
by bitcharmer 2y ago
How much staffing does a feature like that even require? It's not like it even requires any maintenance at this point. They could just leave it alone.
- roland35 2y agoI think the issue is that the underlying dependencies are changing, so even if the feature set never changes it still requires some amount of engineering work to keep it up and running.
- myth_drannon 2y agoDepends on the tech stack. If it's JS/TS then it's a nightmare to maintain, with all the Critical and High security issues. Packages that are not updated anymore you need to replace with something else. You can't just leave it alone, it's easier to shut it down and save yourself another accident and subsequent postmortem.
- klodolph 2y agoIt does require maintenance, unfortunately.
- criddell 2y agoThe service has access to years and years of very fine-grained location data for millions of people. There's no way they could just let it drift. It would be a liability nightmare.