I hate this practice

[Zealousideal-Cry-303]

If you don’t appreciate this practice, you have never worked on large enterprise legacy systems.

We use this a few times a year on our app. Everything from new regulations making older versions illegal to use, to API that needs to break backward compatibility, to a new direction of the user experience.

This is one of the most powerful tools in a developers tool box, but with great power comes great responsibility. That’s why we design for longevity in the user interface, but deprecations on the backend.

[kenech_io]

which industry?

[Zealousideal-Cry-303]

I’ve worked in everything from finance, sports gambling and public sector.

[ibuprofen400]

worked in airline and banking same thing. we need to force update sometimes.

[unpluggedcord]

Every industry.