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“Need” support, until you just force them to not need it.

Like how YouTube basically killed off IE6: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/4/18529381/google-youtube-in...

As long as people don’t have a reason to change, they won’t. I say you drop support now and consider yourselves lucky that you can ditch your more difficult and problematic customers.

I mean, of course, I know this isn’t a realistic course of action for everyone. But I wish it was.




It is usually the difficult and problematic enterprise customers using IE11 that also pay the most money. The choice between ditching customers and ditching a framework is not usually difficult.


Agreed, keeping your customers supported is #1 priority. This is a super hard lesson for many new engineers as they always want to use the latest and greatest bleeding edge tech. Unfortunately that want rarely aligns with the businesses needs.




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