What should people with old browsers do?

#4 your logic is flawed. Lichess V2 is cosmetic changes, as they say. Which means, for cosmetic improvements you prevent 2% of players to play at all. Whereas the other way round, what you would deprive 98% is just cosmetic improvement that they probably don't even care for.

#10: my laptop is very old but it still work perfectly. Do you think I want to buy a new one because Lichess released a new version? Besides money issue, this is just idiotic. I don't support any kind of planned obsolescence.

@Doofenshmirtz lets say iPad 3 that was made in 2012 should not be dropped.
Development of newer versions is great! But why not to give an option to use an older version for people who cannot use the new one?

@shatkovski 2012 is 7 years ago - quite a long time in tech terms. Remember that Lichess is a web site, so it's not the device that's that important but the browser. If Apple no longer provide modern/secure browsers for it you should be taking that up with Apple (and not using it for anything where security is important such as banking, shopping, email etc). If Apple don't support it, then why do you say free software developers "should" not drop it? The onus is on Apple, and if you're unhappy with the situation then stop supporting Apple by buying their stuff, or maybe alter your expectations such that you expect to get a new Apple product every <7 years. You say "give an option to use an older version" which sounds like the developers just have to add a box marked "use old version" but behind the scenes you are saying they "should" be supporting 2 entirely different code bases, double the testing, potentially different server software/config, fixing bugs twice, keeping two development environments etc etc. Why would they want to do that? Why should they? If you'd signed a contract for 5 years of Lichess then they just say "sorry, you can't play any more" one day I'd agree with you - they "should" support you and your kit for 5 years, but a lot of Lichess users just rock up at the URL after hearing about it on Reddit or whatever with their windows Vista or old tablets or whatever. The browsers are deprecated! They are dead! Unsupported. It's not Lichess making a value judgement based on opinion - the browsers just aren't supported any longer by the browser manufacturers.
Lichess is open source. The developers have been perfectly clear about the reason for change, and that it won't be reversed. I'd suggest people who are not happy with the situation club together, fork pre v2 and find devs, server hosts etc to continue development, back-port bug fixes etc.

@Doofenshmirtz Well said

@polylogarithmique The V2 is a foundation where new features that were impossible to add in V1 can be done.

I agree.

It is very sad that certain users with older browsers will not be able to use Lichess, but I think it was totally necessary.

I would hope that any anger with lichess for not supporting the ipad 3 would be shared with Apple who stopped releasing updates for it 3 years ago, and is a company with infinitely more resources than Lichess.

The new update is not suitable for a lot of players!

Apple tablets (or any other tablet for that matter) are not meant to be supported forever. I have an Apple iPad 2 and support from Apple was dropped long ago and most apps don't even support it.

The problem isn't lichess.org, the problem is that the tablet is old and not supported, even by Apple.

I suggest upgrading the tablet because stuff working with it has been more a grace, an exception moreso than a rule.

This is what life is like with phones and tablets. Their support cycles are much shorter than laptop/desktop operating systems.

#11
Planned obsolescence? Now lichess is responsible for some company not supporting their shit anymore?
Now this is kinda twisted thinking friend, as you already supported planned obsolescence by purchasing that laptop.
But I have an advice for you. Install some Linux on your old Laptop.
You might be surprised how fast and snappy that good old horse of yours can still be if fed right.
If you choose to do so, you will be able to install an up to date browsers and you might prolong the lifetime of your laptop by years. Not only for lichess but for all you do with it. Consider it. World keeps spinning...
Fight that planned obsolescence, not complain about it.

#11 #19 I think the nuance here is that the obsolescence is unplanned: Lichess' priorities are performance and mobile support. Feel free to use the site in closed-source browsers on closed-source systems; we're certainly not trying to break anything.