Give user option of temporarily disabling account.

[asquare14]

Description

I think in "Customize your profile", the user should be given the option of temporarily disabling their accounts.
Permanently deleting will lead the user's all data to be lost while temporarily deleting will give the user a chance to rejoin the community again from where they left.

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[julianguyen]

This is a good idea, I think we should still keep the option to permanently delete the account.

We'll have to think through what temporarily disabling it means though. Would this prevent the user from having their content visible to allies?

[asquare14]

I was thinking of something along the lines of deactivating the account in facebook, it won't be visible to allies, in functionality it will be similar to delete permanently, the difference being data will not be lost and can be recovered.
This might be of relevance https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5140643/how-to-soft-delete-user-with-devise
And Yes we should keep option of permanent deletion, just add this feature. :D

[baohouse]

Wait, so those people on Facebook who I thought deleted their accounts were actually just deactivated? Ohhh... that makes me seem kind of a jerk for cleaning out my relationship with them. 😞 So would suspending the account mean you won't be able to lurk and view your allies' activity as well (since they cannot see yours)? And it probably means you should be able to read content you're the author of.

[julianguyen]

Yeah so how Facebook works when you deactivate your account (I do this a lot lol), no one can see your profile or interact with it. You are re-activated the minute you sign back in.

So in order to achieve something similar on our platform we would have some kind of "active" flag on a User account. If it's set to false then hide that user from any ally lists, ally search, the stories feed, and any strategies list they previously shared their content on.

[haleymnatz]

Hey @julianguyen, @baohouse, and @asquare14, is this feature vetted and ready to be implemented? If so, I'd be happy to work on it. :)

[carlqt]

Thanks for the invite, let me take a crack at this.

[julianguyen]

Hey, @carlqt can you assign yourself to this issue? You should have received an invite to join the org in your email. Thank you! :)

[carlqt]

Hey guys, was wondering what are the restrictions of a disabled user. Aside from being hidden from searches and allies list.

[asquare14]

I think he or she cannot join groups ,stratergies and moments.

[carlqt]

Questions:

For an easier approach, should we just restrict a disabled user to accessing group/moods/medications/allies etc…? The only page that is accessible would be the profile page wherein he can decide to reactivate his account? The flow I’m thinking is that we redirect the user back to his profile and display a flash message saying he’s unable to navigate to these pages unless he reactivates back his account.