Hi - Someone in another community has asked if Stacker are retiring "Astra". Is this the case? Thanks.

Hi @ancient-portugal-25644, yes sadly this is the case. We’ve been speaking to the impacted customers over the last few days to ensure we can minimise the disruption as much as possible. With this change we will no longer be sunsetting Classic and will continue to support that into the future. We’ll be making a broader announcement about this shortly.

Thanks Sam

@white-scooter-70446 what does that mean? Isn’t Astra the “new Stacker”? So we shouldnt be developing on this?

Can those of us still on Classic please see this announcement as well? It feels like this is a big deal and has larger implications for the entire product.

@rich-thailand-76551 I’m on both Astra and Classic and I saw no announcement

Whenever you see something, please share here.

Hi all — yes so we’re preparing to announce this next week once we have spoken to everyone using Astra at the moment. Sadly for us we haven’t managed to get as much traction as we had hoped with Astra and we have therefore flipped our previous decision: • we will keep Classic around with no end date in sight. All your apps will continue to work and be supported there. • we will be sunsetting Astra approx by the end of 2025. We’re really sorry for the impact this has on the customers that have invested in Astra and we’re doing what we can to help them in each situation.

Will the stacker team continue to work on and develop Classic or is what it currently is pretty much what it will be?

I am one of the affected stacker astra customers, for what its worth the team have been really helpful and helped me work on a plan B. I understand classic will more likely remain as is, but still be supported. thats just the understanding I have but I am sure they will update ASAP

Just transitioned to Astra this year. Invested a lot of time and energy into selling it, building on it, dealing with bugs and re-training staff. Please reach out ASAP.

Will this jeopardize Stacker in total including V4 Classic?

@chilly-controller-39138 I’m speculating here so let’s def wait for an official answer but thats my concern too. The “we will keep Classic around with no end in sight” sounds like the company is moving away from active development and is just going to maintain what they have

💯 %! Not the best news before the weekend...

@white-scooter-70446 what does this mean for Stacker in general as a company? Just coasting?

Maybe I'm being naive or overly optimistic, but I'm hoping "we will keep Classic around with no end in sight" actually means ... no end in sight to Stacker! And with that, more investment into Classic. 🤞 We just made a major move to consolidate our other platforms and put everything in Stacker. It really is the best platform for our needs.