[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28290: Changing _site_option functions for _network_option functions

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#28290: Changing _site_option functions for _network_option functions
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 Reporter:  jmlapam             |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Networks and Sites  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                      |     Focuses:  multisite
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Comment (by jmlapam):

 Replying to [comment:1 jdgrimes]:

 > So yes, let's change these to `*_network_option()`, but let's not just
 do it to change the names. Find everything wrong with the old functions
 that we couldn't fix without breaking back-compat, and let's fix it in the
 new functions.


 While I can understand this need of backward compat this is not the
 philosophy of WP :


 >Decisions, not Options
 >When making decisions these are the users we consider first. A great
 example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a
 user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user
 doesn't care or understand the option this ultimately leads to
 frustration. As developers we sometimes feel that providing options for
 everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right?
 Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the
 average end user has no interest in. It's our duty as developers to make
 smart design decisions and avoid putting the weight of technical choices
 on our end users.

 [Source](https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/)

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