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This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?



He's referring to the collective work of everyone who created a portfolio during the feature's 12-year existence.


Yes, but the author isn't the only user. There's millions of users in 12 years, their cumulative work is gone.


"The author" is a millionaire early web pioneer whose opinion is at least as valuable as anybody else's, if not more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun


You're correct. Author added some stocks into their hypothetical portfolio and went back to check to see how it was doing.

I wonder if Google sent emails to uses notifying them that the service was going to be discontinued.


I had a portfolio there, just to see what the feature was about.

There was a notification on the site a while back (months ago, can't remember exactly when), but I don't think they sent an email announcement.


At times I’m annoyed they don’t update it. But given the modern idea of “updating” is to remove functionality and add white space I’m thankful.




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