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imrehg / WatchDoc

Chrome extension to notify you if your Google Docs change
http://imrehg.github.com/WatchDoc
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Project deprecated reasoning? #60

Open dylang opened 9 years ago

dylang commented 9 years ago

I was wondering if you can tell us why WatchDoc been removed from the Chrome extension site.

I didn't know about it when it was there and now that I wish I had something like it I haven't found anything comparable.

Thanks!

imrehg commented 9 years ago

Hi,

Basically all the API that the extension was relying on were changed due to the way Google evolves, and thus functionality broken. Most of them was fixed up a while ago (and probably they are broken again since then due to even more API changes). There was one part, the login system, that changed in a way that I couldn't get to work properly again (specifically I couldn't find a reliable way of logging users out, then let people to log back again). I also had much less time working on it, so it was anybody's guess whether the code could be brought to working order again. Instead of leaving out a buggy version, I suspended it on the Chrome Web Store. I'd love to fix it up, just don't know whether it will happen...

I'll leave this issue open, and update it if anything happens.

Cheers! Greg