Block cloning

[5e-Cleric]

It'd be great if users could block the souece dropdown in the share page for their brews, as both a brew per brew basis or a user setting.

Ideally this would work like this:

• If a user sets a block on a brew, the clone to new button , view source, and download stop appearing or appear disabled. It would be considered unclonable.

• If a user with an account sets the default to all their brews as non-clonable, brew-per-brew option would not be possible, and all brews are unclonable.

I know users will still be able to get the text via dev tools, but most users would not.

[Gazook89]

Philosophically, is non-source available brews something we want, or should all brews have their source available?

[5e-Cleric]

I think it makes sense for users to prevent others from cloning their stuff and claiming it as own by the click of a single button, lol

[ericscheid]

So long as we don't frame the option as being total protection, because it isn't,

[5e-Cleric]

Should be part of #1908

[G-Ambatte]

This is somewhat complicated... There are currently two access types, share and edit. The new Brew Locking feature I've been working on will block any attempt to access a "locked" brew via any method other than edit. However for this feature, we'd need to differentiate share based on the calling page: perhaps something like view (for /share) and source (for viewing /source, cloning to /new, and so on).
It's not impossible and probably not the most difficult feature in the world to create.

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Account wide protection, however, is a bit trickier. We either need to add a check against the User's account wide settings (which, specifically, don't exist at this point in time), or come up with a way for the User to update multiple (or even all) brews at once (which also does not currently exist).
To be clear, I think both options will need to exist at some point in the near future. Account checks probably makes more sense; in that it has a much smaller potential DB impact than users mass updating their brews.