Anyone still using Meteor 2?

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Hiyas,

I’m the defacto maintainer of a number of Meteor packages and I’m considering whether to maintain support for Meteor 2. It’s difficult because more and more modern dependencies have Node.js 18 as a minimum version and Meteor 2 relies on Node.js 14.

I have a couple of question:

  1. Do we have statistics on what portion of Meteor apps are still running Meteor 2?
  2. For those still on Meteor 2, what are the biggest obstacles preventing you from migrating to Meteor 3?
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We have a few Meteor 2 instances in limbo. Basically, they started off as a fork of our main branch, never got merged back in, and just took on a life of their own.

And the main branch is happily sitting on the bleeding edge with Meteor 3.

We just don’t want to migrate them to Meteor 3 because the “rogue forks” feel like technical debt that should’ve been addressed earlier. For the most part our plan is just to eventually make them obsolete, migrate users to alternatives, and/or replicate any unique functionality in the main branch, which will hopefully be soon.

As far as I know, we don’t appear have any particularly strong dependency on a Meteor 2-only package (or package versions) in any of those forks.

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