# Problematic behavior of the extension manager

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/problematic-behavior-of-the-extension-manager/10986
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/problematic-behavior-of-the-extension-manager/10986 "2020-04-03T23:06:33Z")
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### Author: ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/problematic-behavior-of-the-extension-manager/10986/5 "2020-05-29T00:29:39Z")

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I find this really frustrating, too. This unreliability is very harmful because most likely newcomers immediately give up on the entire software when they encounter this.

@jcfr @Sam_Horvath What is the current state of migrating the extension manager to a new backend? How much work is still needed? What can we do to make it happen?

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