Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Problem/Motivation
User module ships two views that were originally shipped with views in contrib - 'Who's online' and 'Who's new'.
Who's online has some privacy considerations even for a community site, and who's new is liable to show spam accounts unless user accounts are pre-moderated.
I'm not aware of any sites that use either view, and there are plenty of examples of views both in core and contrib these days, so that core modules don't need to ship 'demo' views.
These views aren't just dormant. They show up in the views UI unless you explicitly delete them. Also on every cold cache request they have to be loaded from the database and written to cache. Writing all the views that Umami ships with to the cache bin takes 80ms and there about 20 views shipped with umami. So it's potentially 1-4ms on every site that doesn't delete the views. Very small but non-zero.
See this from the Gander dashboard:
https://gander.tag1.io/explore?schemaVersion=1&panes=%7B%22ac5%22:%7B%22...
Steps to reproduce
Proposed resolution
Remaining tasks
User interface changes
Introduced terminology
API changes
Data model changes
Release notes snippet
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screenshot from 2026-05-29 09-50-10.png | 203.81 KB | catch |
Issue fork drupal-3592672
Show commands
Start within a Git clone of the project using the version control instructions.
Or, if you do not have SSH keys set up on git.drupalcode.org:
changes
Comments
Comment #3
catchMade a start on removals and fixed a couple of obvious tests, expecting more test failures.
Comment #4
catchNot that bad - a couple of views UI tests that are using the who's online view, can likely switch that to a different view that's not going anywhere (did that for one test already).
InstallerExistingConfigMultilingualTest needs a bit more work - can probably also switch the view that's used, but also there's a fixture of the who's online view used in that test that would be swapped out too.