[theplatman]

I would say it’s a bad sign that 40-50% of the user base is already one version behind as you’re releasing v7.

This comparison ignores reach router, which was the other replacement for react router by that same team before they abandoned it for remix. That still has 600k downloads so now you’re nearly at 50:50.

There’s a reason why many front end devs have stayed away react router and the associated libraries since 2016/2017 because this team has lost a lot of good will for the number of times they’ve done major overhauls of their projects.

[dcre]

Why is it bad sign? It means the old versions are pretty good and people are still using them. It's very hard for me to imagine a library used at this absolutely massive, mind-boggling scale that doesn't have a long tail of legacy support.

On top of that people are very much still moving to v6. When I checked last August it was about 50-50 v6 vs the rest, now it's 60-40, and in absolute terms that delta is far more than the total number of Reach downloads.

[0xblinq]

> It means the old versions are pretty good and people are still using them

That's a very optimistic view of the situation.