Questions tagged [deprecation]
Sometimes things don't go as well as planned, or just stop being useful enough to be worth keeping. Use this tag for questions about deprecating existing features of Stack Exchange, or to discuss the already done deprecation of past features. For discussing what to do about answers that use now deprecated methods, scripts etc. use the outdated-information tag.
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Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
This year, we made the difficult decision to sunset Winter/Summer Bash. Winter Bash has been an annual event on Stack Exchange each December for the past decade.
What are the origin and goals of ...
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Deprecating our mobile views
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On March 2, 2022 we removed the Mobile button from the footer. This means the mobile views are removed entirely from Stack Overflow. Last week, we also removed the Disable Responsiveness ...
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Turning off the mobile feed for the Stack Exchange app
Note: As of December 12th, 2022 the Mobile app infrastructure has been decommissioned
As we've recently mentioned, we are no longer actively supporting our Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange apps on ...
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Why was the Tumbleweed badge retired? [duplicate]
Just out of curiosity, why was this cheeky badge retired? Was it because it was self-deprecating? Did it encourage no-answer questions?
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TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 removal for Stack Exchange services
Update (2020-02-13): This change was completed last night on the Fastly side. Most of our endpoints now have TLS 1.0 and 1.1 disabled. We’ll be addressing our direct load balancers next.
Update (2020-...
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Clarification on the ban of the meme about pluralization bugs
On top of an answer describing a meme about pluralization bugs, there was a deprecation notice posted (from August 2018):
This meme is officially deprecated.
Please do not use this meme. It ...
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Support for OpenID ended on July 25, 2018
TL;DR: Signing up or logging in via OpenID is no longer officially supported from any of our sites.
Stack Overflow was an early and strong supporter of OpenID. We built our sign-up/log-in flow around ...
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Is there a reason people can still tag questions as homework? [closed]
Since the homework tag is deprecated, why are users still able to tag questions with it? I'm guessing that you haven't blacklisted the tag which means users can still use/recreate it. In that case my ...
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