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We can see in the Smugmug pages that they now have YUI3 with backwards compatibility for YUI2. For existing customizations written to YUI2 (like the JFriend HTML5 slideshow), will those continue to work indefinitely with YUI2 or is there some time frame that everything needs to be moved over to YUI3?

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@dpollit - this is not a feature request in any way so I rolled back your edit to remove that tag and put two of the YUI tags back on because they are certainly relevant. I'm not asking for a new feature. I'm asking if they will continue to support what they have right now. It's just a simple question with possible answers (yes - indefinitely, no - you should be migrated off it right now because supports stops at x date, yes - no plans to remove it, you will receive plenty of notice if plans change). – jfriend00 Jan 30 '12 at 3:10
So you are using this site as a conduit to ask questions of the SmugMug team now? Have you tried emailing them? I don't think that the 3 tags for "yui, yui2, yui3" are irrelevant, I think they are unnecessary. Further - at least in the preliminary discussions on meta, employees of SmugMug have suggested that questions only they can answer should be considered off topic. See meta.smugmug.stackexchange.com/a/9/62 One question has already been closed based on this - smugmug.stackexchange.com/questions/1/… – dpollitt♦ Jan 30 '12 at 3:35
It's a legit question that I have as one who has authored and supports a lot of Smugmug customizations. If these type of questions are off-topic, then you should vote to close it as such. I had not seen that meta question (I don't read everything). It's also a question that would be relevant to LOTs of other people who have written javascript customizations any time in the last 5+ years. I thought it was a useful question to have an answer to in the public. – jfriend00 Jan 30 '12 at 3:38
The YUI tags are not irrelevant. I reduced the YUI tags from three to two after the rollback, though I don't see why it's a big deal either way. I wanted to specify that this was a question related to two specific YUI versions and didn't know if everybody who subscribed to YUI would be looking at the YUI version-specific tags so I put the general tag on it too. What's the big deal with the three YUI tags? – jfriend00 Jan 30 '12 at 3:40
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I'm starting to feel like it's too much work to get by the question police here. I don't understand why the draconian editing and super tight rules. It's a legit question looking for an answer. – jfriend00 Jan 30 '12 at 3:43
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At some point, not determined yet, we will stop supporting YUI2. So it would be prudent to make your hacks, tricks, and customizations YUI3 compliant.

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As I'm sure you're aware, there are likely thousands of users using YUI2-based customizations so it would take some process to get them all migrated to something new. I guess I'm assuming we'll hear about any YUI2 support demise long, long, long before it actually happens. – jfriend00 Feb 19 '12 at 6:38

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