Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by dessant on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:12PM (#33929083)

It was inevitable to delay the rollout, the adoption of Manifest V3 is way too low among the most popular extensions. Take a look at the various featured categories on the Chrome Web Store, only a small fraction of featured extensions have migrated to Manifest V3. In 3 weeks all of them would have had to be removed from those promotion pages and the Chrome Web Store would have been in ruins.

The deprecation timeline is too aggressive considering that Manifest V3 is still missing important features, so many developers have decided to brace for impact, even if it meant losing the Featured badge for their extensions in January 2023.

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Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by cj on Saturday December 10, 2022 @09:35AM (#33932945)

> The deprecation timeline is too aggressive

I’ve seen Google deprecate a dozen products I’ve used. They all follow the same pattern:

1) Deprecation announced with shut down date

2) 1-2 months before the day, they’ll send an email saying the shut down is delayed by 3-12 months

3) Repeat steps 1-2 until enough people have migrated away

The same thing will happen with Google Analytics, scheduled to be disabled July 2023. There’s no way Google will turn off millions of Analytics (GA3) accounts in 6 months when their replacement product (GA4) is so inferior.

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Re:Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes by flatiron on Saturday December 10, 2022 @10:03AM (#33933185)

I was a really big stadia fan. Controller and dozens of games. Hundreds of hours in game. Everyone said it was going to shit down and I did believe them but said no way they would leave us hanging. Got every penny back from them. So at least with stadia the few that believed in them made out with free gaming over the last years (and a free useless controller)

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