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by fokinsean 3128 days ago
It's unfortunate that it makes your videos out of date, however you chose to depend on cloud9. You could have used any other dozen non cloud based editors out there.

Definitely a lesson to everyone to be cognizant of their dependencies.

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Yeah, I went with the one backed by Amazon...stupid me.
Software changes. Any time you take up a dependency from anyone, part of what you are signing up for is tracking the changes in it over time.
Sounds like you didn't anticipate they would ever change the user experience. Perhaps you can slice out ux portions of video separate from portions teaching programming concepts. Then you can build a better product that is resilient to change. Not all is lost. It's just a lesson to be learned from.