Strange case of user base stagnation

My Chrome extension, Rearrange Tabs, has had great success over the years and I noticed that the user base hasn’t been growing over the past few years. It seemed like the user base growth plateaued initially and now it’s slowly going down.

I never bothered to actually find the root cause for this, since the project itself is open source, it’s actively updated and I never intended to push it to users or market it. I just thought others might find it useful.

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, someone opened a discussion saying that Chrome added basic support for tab reordering in April 2022. Sure, it doesn’t have the support for customizing the shortcuts yet, or at least that I know of, but it still has the basic support.

That’s a huge win for me. The functionality of a project that I created ended up landing in Chrome. I’m very happy about it.

Now, I can actually make the extension thinner and maybe even add more custom features to it. The best part is that the name of the extension is generic enough to include more features around rearranging tabs.

I will update the future path of the extension and publish it sometime on GitHub <3