> But the three big public deprecations I'm aware of are Reader, Inbox, and G+.
Google Code. Also Wave and half a dozen chat apps, but Code was a serious one that broke a lot of the developer web.
Google Code. Also Wave and half a dozen chat apps, but Code was a serious one that broke a lot of the developer web.
What did it break?
URLs that change without good reason are a PITA.
I see hundreds of thousands of repositories on Github responding to the search "Automatically exported from code.google.com", which means they only transferred _after_ the shutdown was announced (when the export tool went live). Any wikis would have had to be hand-converted to not be broken, since the markup between the two systems was not compatible. I mean, thank you for handling it as well as it was handled, and thank you for (if you were part of that) the export tool, but let's not pretend that it wasn't disruptive.