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Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by ry_ry on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:52PM (#14396423)
We did a similar thing, but folded it into unsupported and deprecated - unsupported browsers will get an HTML page extolling the virtues of updating your browser once a decade, whilst deprecated browsers (basically IE10 at the time tbh) were treated to a popup explaining that whilst the site probably works just fine, their browser wasnt fully upto date and the experience might suffer.

Eventually, and I doubt we had anything to do with it, IE10 usage dipped below the magic .5% (when it costs is more money to support than it earns us) and it was finally unsupported.

The only crappy browsers we still officially support are ancient safari and IE11, both of which are still going relatively strong for reasons we've never been able to fully explain!

Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by sp332 on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:53PM (#14396856)
IE11 is the most recent version of IE, it's not like it's old or unsupported. And it has way more compatibility tweaks than Edge, so lots of people haven't switched.
Re:HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road by Osiris on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:39PM (#14396748)
Corporate environments often rewrite employees to use IE 11 because of outdated internal web apps. Where I work the Windows laptops, even Windows 10, only allow IE 11, not even Edge.