Dropping of Internet Explorer support

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Official announcement is up.

Discourse is ending support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on June 1, 2020

Why is Discourse dropping IE11 support? From the beginning, Discourse has been built for the future of the internet. Discourse relies on current, evolving web standards as it is developed. Microsoft is no longer updating IE11 to support modern web standards, they are only providing security updates and support. Given the lack of updates, Discourse development has become hindered by IE11. When new features are developed, they frequently require IE-specific code to ensure they work as expected, as…