Rails yanked out observers many many years ago, instead the functionality
was yanked out to a gem that is very lightly maintained.
For example: if we want to upgrade to rails 5 there is no published gem
Internally the usage of observers had quite a few problem.
The series of refactors renamed a bunch of classes to give us more clarity
and removed some magic.
previously we supported blanket read and write for user API, this
change amends it so we can define more limited scopes. A scope only
covers a few routes. You can not grant access to part of the site and
leave a large amount of the information hidden to API consumer.
Users can no longer opt-in for "public" edit history
if site owner disables it.
This feature adds cost and complexity to post rendering since
user options need to be premeptively loaded for every user in the
stream. It is also confusing to explain to communities with private edit
history.
- present tags watched on the user prefs page
- automatically watch or unwatch old topics based on watch status
New watching and tracking logic takes care of handling old topics
(either with or without read state)
When you watch a topic you now watch historically
Also removes confusing warnings from user.
* Rearrange frontend to account for mailing list mode
* Allow update of user preference for mailing list frequency
* Add mailing list frequency estimate
* Simplify frequency estimate; disable activity summary for mailing list mode
* Remove combined updates
* Add specs for enqueue mailing list mode job
* Write mailing list method for mailer
* Fix linting error
* Account for stale topics
* Add translations for default mailing list setting
* One query for mailing list topics
* Fix failing spec
* WIP
* Flesh out html template
* First pass at text-based mailing list summary
* Add user avatar
* Properly format posts for mailing list
* Move make_all_links_absolute into Email::Styles
* Apply first_seen_at to user
* Send mailing list email summary hourly based on first_seen_at
* Branch and test cleanup
* Use existing mailing list mode estimate
* Fix failing specs
