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Re:Sentimental Versioning by Cthulhu_ on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:50AM (#24753458)
I don't mind Chrome's versioning / release schedule; for the past decade that it's been out, I've never noticed an update beyond the small / incremental redesigns every couple of years (like rounding tabs, dark theme support). Nothing ever broke. Nothing was ever added as an obvious feature or annoyance.

edit because I feel like I have to: this describes my experience, it may not be fact, your experience may differ, etc.

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Re:Sentimental Versioning by aboodman on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:47PM (#24758667)
That was actually an explicit goal. We knew that if we were going to update that frequently:

- the changes had to be small (and would be by nature of so close together) - we had to be very very careful about backwards incompat changes (either to the UI or the APIs).

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