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A comment on Ask HN: What's a reasonable deprecation period for an API?.

Re:Ask HN: What's a reasonable deprecation period for an API? by the_arun on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:18PM (#25923502)
What is the motivation for your users going from v1 to v2? If there is a business advantage, they will & you can deprecate old version sooner. If not, it takes more time & effort.
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Re:Ask HN: What's a reasonable deprecation period for an API? by gabrielsroka on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:29PM (#25923553)
v1 is an old design that won't scale. We need to deprecate it. v2 will be newer and better for us and our end users.
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