How I feel about Station
anthony mauceri
I wanted to make a post just explaining how important the old station application has become to my work flow. Station is such a fantastic browser and I love being able to have a separate browser just for things like communication (slack, my emails, facebook messenger, etc) as well as productivity stuff like Figma and Google Drive. I really like the old station and would hate to see it lose support. I only found out about the change in direction when trying to install Station on my laptop. Personally I'm not against trying the new station extension, but as an avid Station user I am concerned about this new direction. On an unrelated note, is there any way for me to install the old station browser on my laptop or is there no longer a download available for it?
Maud Miguet
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your feedback. We understand your disappointment, the new product aims to solve a different problem for a different segment of users. Our co-founder Julien wrote a transparent and honest retrospective here: https://stationhq.com/blog/falling-in-love-with-problems
In a way, the old direction was costing us users as we weren’t growing in over 15 months. But that’s something only we knew about and don’t expect existing users to have an understanding of.
Sometimes you pivot to build a different solution for a given need. But often times, pivots are radical and aim to solve a different need for a different segment of users. And naturally, that cost you the existing users in the process. We know that very well and accept it.
We are not supporting or updating the desktop app anymore, so we can't let it be available for the public, sorry.
Hope this can help you understand a bit more our transition. :)
All the best
anthony mauceri
Maud Miguet: If you guys won't support it anymore, can you guys at least open source it allowing the community to continue its development?