@Kaan Soral. Yes, we also heavily use the images service, it's invaluable and we love it. We were also using mail, although it really wasn't a big problem to move to an external service. (Though incoming is indeed more of an issue) By exotic, I mean things like Prospective Search and XMPP/Channels. I don't think too many people were really affected by those deprecations.
On Friday, 25 November 2016 13:38:16 UTC, Kaan Soral wrote: > > It is what I meant, apologies if I was confusing > > On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 3:36:14 PM UTC+2, George Bittmann wrote: >> >> Where is the mail deprecation? Post a link if it's happening please. I >> thought they were only no longer approving requests to expand beyond the >> 100 daily limit. Is that what you mean? >> >> >> On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 8:06:33 AM UTC-5, Kaan Soral wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> Thanks a lot for the reply again >>> >>> For images, https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/ - >>> the 1600 resize limit started to age a bit, I'm using the images service >>> heavily on https://geobird.com - and considering the recent 4K, 5K >>> resolutions, even bumping the limit to 2400 would improve dynamics a lot, >>> considering it would at least cover 1080p (Current solution is to just >>> serve images with "=s0" - considering most devices have retina resolutions >>> now, most images started becoming "=s0" - and a significant bandwidth is >>> wasted for clients) >>> >>> If we analyse the case for the images service, it provides dynamic >>> resizing at instant availability, It's an invaluable service, I love >>> appengine because it provides building blocks like these - Instead of >>> depreciating such services, it would be lovely to see new ones, for >>> example, a "videos" service, even though I'm using Zencoder for video >>> processing, if we compare it to the ease of using the images service, it's >>> a heavy burden >>> >>> @Mark Cummins, I don't know what service you are calling exotic and >>> less-used, It would be great if you could provide concrete examples, >>> interacting with other app engine users, you would be amazed how each >>> component is utilised and valued >>> If we analyse the case for mail, I personally was using it to send >>> mails, so, while the deprecation was an extreme nuisance, it wasn't the end >>> of the world, yet, communicating with others, I saw that some were using >>> apps as turnkey solutions, or, they were deploying singular apps for their >>> clients, so having a practical mail solution was crucial to them, some were >>> handling incoming email, while things were simple from the outgoing email >>> perspective, for an app that handled both incoming/outgoing email, the >>> deprecation was much more worrying >>> >>> On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 3:28:07 AM UTC+2, Lorne Kligerman >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Heard loud and clear on action speaking louder than words. We have a >>>> lot brewing and are excited to show it off when ready. >>>> >>>> There have been some deprecation announcements lately. The objective >>>> here is to bring App Engine in line with the rest of GCP. This is a >>>> challenging effort because of how long App Engine pre-dates the rest of >>>> the >>>> system. That being said, we do have our users best interests at heart and >>>> we believe the future state will be a good one. Significant improvements >>>> have been made to the App Engine Admin API, which officially went GA >>>> <https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/automate-deployments-and-traffic-splitting-with-the-App-Engine-Admin-API.html> >>>> >>>> a couple months ago. >>>> >>>> Regarding mail, we are currently gathering requirements for a GCP wide >>>> solution. For images, could you give more detail on exactly which limit >>>> you're running up against and the scenario? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM, 'Alex (Cloud Platform Support)' via >>>> Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Kaan, >>>>> >>>>> On a side note, it is possible to receive regular emails from the >>>>> Google Cloud Platform by following these steps: >>>>> >>>>> 1. Access the Cloud Platform Console >>>>> >>>>> 2. Click the “3 vertical dots” on the top-right section of the menu >>>>> >>>>> 3. Navigate to preferences->Updates & Offers >>>>> >>>>> 4. 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