Deadline is still January if you want the featured badge or if you want to work in all the channels of Chrome. Seems like for most developers the deadline is the same.
As a news website you don't NEED to use AMP. You'll just never appear in Google's news carousel, and won't be at the top of the news search results anymore. Sorry :(
Way too risky for devs to ignore the deadline and possibly get de-ranked from store search results.
It wouldn't make any sense to let V2 extensions keep running until June but disallow updates. What about security issues? They have to allow security updates.
> There are two key dates for the phase-out:
> January 17, 2022: New Manifest V2 extensions will no longer be accepted by the Chrome Web Store. Developers may still push updates to existing Manifest V2 extensions, but no new Manifest V2 items may be submitted.
> January 2023: The Chrome browser will no longer run Manifest V2 extensions. Developers may no longer push updates to existing Manifest V2 extensions.
So V2 would be disabled in the stable channel simultaneously with the end of updates, in January 2023.
Only a special enterprise policy could keep V2 extensions running for a while after that time.
The timeline has now been updated too: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/
"Chrome browser provides 5 channels: Stable, Extended stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary."
I was about to hop in the car and didn't have time to Google it, and pre-cognitvely figured others might also like to know without needing to also actively search it 100x, collectively.
Looking at my comment history, it's clear I frequently do research things myself and post a thorough comment in an effort to educate as well as inform others about terminology in HN discussions.
Please strive to be generous in your interpretations of others.
There are 3 posters including me replying to your question re what channels are, 2 including the same link. Hopefully that answers your question! (and by that I mean that I hope you didn't interpret that to be me sending you to a mistaken answer? if that's what you were refering to?)
That link is indeed genuinely from google.
I did downvote, but people also downvoted my comment as well, so I don't treat downvotes or upvotes as that important, sorry if that made you feel any other way.
The important thing is : did you get the answer to your question?