Endoflife.date
Dev tools
end-of-life date reference
SHOW HN2019
248points
80comments
#140of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
8 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 14 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Design: 1 for, 6 againstDocs: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 6 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Saves time searching for EOL info
From 2 comments
I repeatedly google this stuff en mass and thought a community-managed website would be a really great so thank you for saving me loads of effort! I'll be PR-ing a bunch of stuff…
aoeuidiue on HNWow, this is pretty handy! I feel I used to search a lot more fore these things than I should have. Good job!
kissgyorgy on HN
Objections
Relative dates hard to read; absolute dates wanted
From 2 comments
Suggestion: Relative dates are nice ("1 year and 7 months"), but I'd have an easier time reading it with absolute dates as well ("2019-12-34").
yjftsjthsd-h on HNIt'd still be nice to not have this tied to hover, relative dates are more useful to get a gist of how long you've got - those absolute dates are usually what you need to sell it…
munk-a on HN
Colour scheme hard for colourblind users
From 1 comment
Hey, this seems like a pretty useful website, one quick comment is that it does not seem to be easily usable by colorblind people. Almost 10% of males are red-green colorblind,…
the_pwner224 on HN
Some entries misleading, such as Ubuntu 14.04 and RHEL coverage
From 3 comments
The Ubuntu page is a little confusing. The "security support" on that page appears to be "Extended Security Maintenance" which is available for kernel security updates, and only…
craigds on HNAgreed, for most users there's effectively no ongoing support for 14.04, which makes the way it appears in this table highly misleading. Based on this I wouldn't recommend this…
JeremyNT on HNThe RHEL page is mostly useless... it only has RHEL 8 which won't EOL for a while. What we really need are RHEL 6 and 7; 7 won't EOL for some time.
IAmLiterallyAB on HN
Requests
JSON API
From 2 comments
I like it! It would be nice to have (you knew this was coming, yes?) an API, whereby one could programmatically request, say, https://endoflife.date/api/os/ubuntu/16.04 (Haven't…
_jal on HNReally great idea, thank you! I can't believe I hadn't thought of this before. It would be awesome to have a simple API as well that can be curl'ed from a script. I think we…
freedomben on HN
Calendar or ICS notifications
From 2 comments
This looks pretty useful to me. It would be cool if it were possible to sign up for an account which would let you created "projects" which consist of a list of the tools that…
nicoburns on HNiCal shares (or however they are calling that format which can be consumed by multiple clients) would be super useful.
rzzzt on HN
Add more products such as Fedora, Ruby, Cisco, MS SQL
From 3 comments
If I add Fedora, Ruby, and a few other things will you accept the PR (assuming it's good of course. I just don't want to waste my time if you are already happy with the current…
freedomben on HNI love it Please add Cisco
nvr219 on HNPotentially a very useful convenience. A couple of suggestions: 1. I would make it a bit more obvious when versions are not yet released. For instance nodejs v14 is listed with…
dspillett on HN
Feed per project
From 1 comment
Big fan of this, excellent idea. EOL is always non-trivial to find for each project. I think a good addition could be a feed of some sort available for each project e.g.…
haydenkshaw on HN
Questions
Sort order of entries
From 1 comment
What's the sort order? It doesn't change on refresh, but e.g. Python has 4y, 2y, 7m, 1y, in that order, being 3.x, 3.x, 2.x, 3.x respectively. Is it just random but cached? I…
OJFord on HN
Is the data manually maintained
From 1 comment
Is this information manually maintained? It might honestly be nicer to see if you can locate the primary source for these projects and just iframe in that authoritative document…
munk-a on HN
Alternatives named
Python devguide status page
From 1 comment
It was a bit of a pickle to find, but https://devguide.python.org/ has EOL dates under "Status of Python branches"
akovaski on HN
Technopedia (BDNA/Flexera)
From 1 comment
It's a shame, BDNA's Technopedia used to have an excellent, free online search engine that could be leveraged to search EOL information. For context, Technopedia is a library…
rorychatt on HN
Wikipedia version pages
From 1 comment
Super cool idea, I regularly check the wikipedia pages of Debian and Ubuntu for this stuff.
wink on HN