Comment by Pxtl

So Google is bringing the deprecation treadmill to the web, yay!

Yegge called it:

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

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> Because I sometimes get similar letters from the Google Cloud Platform. They look like this:

>> Dear Google Cloud Platform User,

>> We are writing to remind you that we are sunsetting [Important Service you are using] as of August 2020, after which you will not be able to perform any updates or upgrades on your instances. We encourage you to upgrade to the latest version, which is in Beta, has no documentation, no migration path, and which we have kindly deprecated in advance for you.

>> We are committed to ensuring that all developers of Google Cloud Platform are minimally disrupted by this change.

>> Besties Forever,

>> Google Cloud Platform

> But I barely skim them, because what they are really saying is:

>> Dear RECIPIENT,

>> Fuck yooooouuuuuuuu. Fuck you, fuck you, Fuck You. Drop whatever you are doing because it’s not important. What is important is OUR time. It’s costing us time and money to support our shit, and we’re tired of it, so we’re not going to support it anymore. So drop your fucking plans and go start digging through our shitty documentation, begging for scraps on forums, and oh by the way, our new shit is COMPLETELY different from the old shit, because well, we fucked that design up pretty bad, heh, but hey, that’s YOUR problem, not our problem.

>> We remain committed as always to ensuring everything you write will be unusable within 1 year.

>> Please go fuck yourself,

>> Google Cloud Platform

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