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Just basically various means of turning features on/off based on static rules. Settings mostly but occasionally user based or URL params.

Your platform has that and a ton of other things that would be useful for larger platforms, but it would be a pain to develop when you're already building a complicated roadmap.

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If it's settings, its better off being in your apps settings rather than implemented as a long running feature flag.

Feature flags are meant to be temporary.

Well, I mean.. settings can also be temporary. Could be constants or from the DB, etc.

Perfect candidate for a FF if it really is temporary. I have my own personal rule. If the FF lives beyond a certain amount of time, it gets turned into a setting.

End of the day it seems like only semantics. Feature-flag and a boolean "setting" to enable a feature are the same thing.

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