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Comment by rgbrenner | Hacker News Reader

Was anyone really using this feature? Even the author sounds like he wasn't actively using the feature. He entered some data 6 years ago, and went back today to find it was missing.... He didn't even notice until almost a year after it was removed.

Keeping every feature around, even the unused ones that look like failures, is a bad idea.

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Repeatedly destroying trust by dropping things and breaking things for people, is a bad idea.

At this point Google projects are basically less reliable than hobby projects.

But hey, come build your company on top of GCP!

Funny thing is, people are lining up to do just that. I think that's a symptom of an industry where following the hype is more important than long term stability.

Or maybe they’ve carefully weighed their options, and concluded that e.g. Kubernetes on GCP works a lot better than on either AWS or Azure?

Agreed, though, as a sibling said, making a habit of dropping a ton of features constantly is annoying.

Especially when there were options before. If I liked an old version of a native application, used to be I could just keep that old version for a long time. Especially if it was isolated in functionality, even the security implications weren't that dangerous.

Now, everything needs everything. And with the web, you can't pin a version to where you like it. :(

It was one of the few google products that was critical for me that I used daily both through web interface and 3rd party app integration.

I understand "not used by me = not used by anyone" fallacy, but it can be applied to any product closed by google, including reader, inbox, talk, etc.

I was, almost daily. It was a nice tool.

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