[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #42131: Remove Blogroll

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#42131: Remove Blogroll
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 Reporter:  Presskopp     |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:  4.9
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by Clorith):

 * keywords:  close =>
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 I'm going to close this off as `maybelater` for now.

 There's no maintenance burden, it exists for those who used it, and it's
 not there for those who don't use it. I see no real benefit to modifying
 the DB schema just for this (and given the popularity of the plugin to re-
 enable the admin menu for it, it would be silly to remove it, I am fairly
 confident other plugins rely on this table as well).

 As Jorbin mentioned, if there suddenly becomes a maintenance burden with
 this module, we can revisit it at that time, but for now there's really no
 need to worry about it.

 As an aside, we do not know how many users actually use this feature where
 it's kept enabled for them from before we removed it by default, this
 means that if we pull it out of core those sites will need to get a plugin
 to restore functionality that is also reflected on the front-end, and is
 therefore a step that must be carefully weighed before we make that move
 in the future.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/42131#comment:8>
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