Woah, Chrome is looking at dropping the user agent entirely! https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/03/chrome-phasing-user-agent/
Feature detection is good practice anyway, so this seems like a push in the right direction.
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Travis CI is effectively dropping its support for open-source projects: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricing-plan-threw-wrench-my-open-source-works
Fedora may be dropping scp (the protocol, not the command) and NTP in future releases: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Down-With-NTP-SCP
Bitbucket is dropping support for Mercurial: https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket
They report declining usage with <1% of new users using it. Given the additional work required to support both, I understand. VCS variety is worthwhile though: perhaps hg-only platforms are easier to support.
