Prevent users from enabling Flow on their user talk page (beta feature)
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	kostajh
	Mar 23 2020, 12:06 PM

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Given the current status of Flow, and because there are issues with enabling/disabling Flow when a user is blocked/unblocked, I propose that if a user doesn't currently have Flow enabled on their talk page, we should prevent them from enabling it.

T70526: Flow: InvalidDataException "Flow workflow is for different page" from WorkflowLoaderFactory.php is related.

User cases to consider for current Flow users (from T335772):

A user who creates a new account would not have SD listed as an option in Beta Features.
An existing user who never turned on SD or who turned SD off would not have SD listed as an option in Beta Features.
An existing user with SD being active at their talk page would have an option in Beta Features to turn the feature off definitively.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T335670 Disable Flow/Structured Discussions from all namespaces, except for user talk pages, on Catalan Wikipedia
Open	None	T332022 [Epic] Undeploying StructuredDiscussions (Flow)
Open	None	T248309 Prevent users from enabling Flow on their user talk page (beta feature)

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kostajh created this task.Mar 23 2020, 12:06 PM

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kostajh moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion/Analysis on the Growth-Team board.Mar 23 2020, 12:07 PM

Related to T234241.

kostajh mentioned this in T265534: Flow - initiateChange failed to enable Flow on User talk page.Oct 19 2020, 10:29 AM

Enabled on arwiki, bswiki, cawiki, cawikiquote, elwiki, frwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, nowiki, orwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, wawiki, wawiktionary, zhwiki, zhwikisource, wikidatawiki, specieswiki, outreachwiki. So it would require a fair amount of coordination.

kostajh mentioned this in T269839: Flow talk page manager mess up user talk page.Dec 10 2020, 11:17 AM

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MBinder_WMF added a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.Apr 15 2021, 6:50 PM

Pppery merged a task: T335772: Remove the activation of Structured Discussions on user talk pages from Beta features.May 2 2023, 3:54 PM

Pppery added a parent task: T332022: [Epic] Undeploying StructuredDiscussions (Flow).

Pppery removed a project: Growth-Team-Filtering.

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Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T335670: Disable Flow/Structured Discussions from all namespaces, except for user talk pages, on Catalan Wikipedia.May 3 2023, 2:42 PM

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Tgr mentioned this in T327420: Growth: Engineering testing for IP Masking.Jul 8 2023, 12:01 AM