Thanks a lot for your answer. You
Thanks a lot for your answer. You understood correctly my situation.
the 3 things you suggested sounds great but :
1. I can send an email to all the users using the Apify feature. But it won't ensure my users will follow it. I am quite afraid of the amount of support I am going to do
2. Correct me if I am wrong, but publishing a new version does not automatically update the users Actor builds, does it ? I mean If latest is 1.10 and I publish a new 1.9 (for instance 1.9.6) -> users that were using a build 1.9.5 will stay on 1.9.5 unless they manually update their version right ?
3. That is another solution as for support once I break their actor version. But it will not make the transition smooth...
I would love a way to avoid support 🙂
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exotic-emerald•5d ago
Yeah, that makes sense - we're also trying to achieve as smooth migration as possible, so I totally understand you 😉
Regarding your second point: it depends. If users are running a specific build number, publishing a new build for that version won’t automatically update build of their future runs. But if users are using tags instead of specific builds, all future runs will start with the latest build for that tag.
Just to clarify - by default, all users run the latest build of your Actor. That means as soon as you publish a new build, everyone who hasn’t explicitly pinned a specific version (which is quite rare) will automatically switch to it.
In practice, most users will upgrade smoothly without any action needed. You’d only need to worry if you know, that a significant number of users are explicitly setting a specific build version or tags. Otherwise, the transition should be much smoother than it might seem
Let me know if that makes sense or if you have any other questions.
Ok that's actually great news. I will patch the previous tags with a limited permission compatible build, and once this is done, switch the actor to limited permission.
Any chance, as the actor developer, I could know how many "monthly users" are using each tags ?
exotic-emerald•5d ago
Unfortunately, we don’t have a dashboard for that in the Console yet. I’ll pass the suggestion to our team so we can consider adding it in the future.
In the meantime, there’s another way to get some raw data about what builds users are running: go to Insights → Debugging → Select Actor. There, you can see runs that users have shared with you. It’s not all user runs, but it can help you get an overall picture of build tag usage.