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The website for Simple Icons: SVG icons for popular brands
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Add "museum" page for discontinued brands #148

Open jorgeamadosoria opened 2 years ago

jorgeamadosoria commented 2 years ago

As time passes, some brands disappear and are removed from the library. This represents a backwards compatibility problem with users that have these icons but keep their dependencies updated.

This is only an issue for brands or icons that are removed due to falling popularity or outright disappearing. Not every removal qualifies for this, for example:

A potential solution for this is a list page with the removed icons, similar to the existing main page but without the features for sorting or copying, etc. A minimal page would just list all removed SVGs so the user can potentially download it and use it manually or at most offer a permanent link to the latest version in which the icon can be found.

The page would have to be manually updated on each release to add the icons removed, of course.

jorgeamadosoria commented 2 years ago

After making a proposal in the linked PR, I think the effort necessary to automate and maintain this page is too high for the perceived benefit. As such, I'm closing this ticket as unnecessary, since no other maintainer has expressed interest in moving it forward either.

mondeja commented 2 years ago

This can be rethinked if something like https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/issues/7437 is implemented.