[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18693: New feature pointers

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#18693: New feature pointers
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 Reporter:  jane            |       Owner:  koopersmith
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  UI              |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |
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Comment (by nacin):

 I had a conversation with koopersmith and we plan to switch closing to an
 XHR call and avoid the user settings API.

 kovshenin, first, you had a great write up. Second, it'd be great for both
 you and wpbeginner.com to update your tutorials when we're done. We don't
 want the user settings API to start getting used all over the place.

 User settings are cool and simple, but bad for one-off features like this,
 especially when plugins may then extend it. The issue is that the cookie
 holding that data can only hold so much data (4kb). It's also why we kept
 the setting name so short ("p0"). Of course, wpbeginner.com then uses p1,
 as if we'd never want to use that ourselves? Who knows.

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