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I wish “removing features” wasn’t such a popular thing for software companies. I mean I understand the cost of having complexity but is it REALLY that bad to just keep an unmaintained feature going that people use?


You do have to maintain features, fix security issues, refactor surfaces get smaller, even unused - bitrotting code generates at least some work.


It's not that bad ... right up until someone finds a security problem involving said feature, and the original code authors have left.


Well, now that QA is a mature process and people expect tests on every single thing, it's more "expensive" to keep a feature around, as you have to keep on testing it.


There is no way to keep an unmaintained feature in. They will break so fast and there is no point keeping a broken feature in. Just download an FTP client.




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