Remove Activity feed
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	Samwalton9-WMF
	Jan 8 2019, 6:17 PM

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In an attempt to emulate the transparency of Wikipedia, we implemented an activity feed showing recent applications, approvals, and signups (https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/activity/). We've never seen much interest in this page, and in a world where we have the Library Bundle makes less sense as a view of how people are using the tool.

In an effort to simplify the tool and remove bloat, we should simply remove the activity page and all associated views & unused code. This includes the application option to hide the application from the activity feed.

The following should be removed:

ActivityView (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/views.py#L88)
Activity URL (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/urls.py#L98)
activity.html (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/templates/activity.html)
HIDDEN field (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/helpers.py)
Header link to Latest Activity (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/templates/base.html#L175)
Hidden field example data generation (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/management/commands/applications_example_data.py#L79)
Hidden model field (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/models.py#L151)

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		Open		None	T240150 Improve Library Card platform user experience
		Resolved		Yash4357	T213202 Remove Activity feed

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I've made an attempt to list every area where there is code relating to the activity feed or the 'hide application from activity feed' field. I may have missed something.

Hi Sam,
In activity.html can I remove whole file?

Yes :)

HIDDEN field (https://github.com/WikipediaLibrary/TWLight/blob/master/TWLight/applications/helpers.py)
Do I have to remove whole helper.py?