Untangle and deprecate the Global Dashboard aka dashboard.wordpress.com

[annezazu]

Previously, https://dashboard.wordpress.com was the only place you could manage post by voice and post by email. Despite the interface and experience being very rough, we kept this link in https://wordpress.com/me under "Manage blogs" until work was done to move both features to their own dedicated Calypso section (post by email work, post by voice work). In June of this year, the "Manage blogs" link leading to dashboard.wordpress.com was nearly deprecated but had to be reverted per this thread p1718896580048769-slack-CB0B2G43X. This issue seeks to, once and for all, rid us off this older dashboard experience in an effort to offer a better experience to our users. Doing so will also resolve issues that have cropped up like #96186 and #94054

The sole blocker is replicating the ability to "leave blog" that's still available in https://dashboard.wordpress.com. Once this is done, we can remove and deprecate this section, barring anything else being found.

Next steps

In this order:

• Untangling Calypso: implement ability to "Leave blog" #98772 Implement "Leave blog" elsewhere outside of the global dashboard. This will require design help first before dev.
• Remove the access to "Manage blogs". This will require dev.
• Do a sweep to close out any related issues in the Calypso repo. @inaikem or @jordesign please do this when the time comes.

[github-actions]

OpenAI suggested the following labels for this issue:

• [Feature Group] Content Management: The issue discusses managing features on WordPress.com, including the removal of an older dashboard experience, which relates to content management tools.
• [Feature] Classic Interface: The issue mentions a legacy dashboard experience, which corresponds with the classic interface reference.
• [Feature] User Management: The issue refers to user capabilities related to managing blogs and leaving a blog, which falls under user management.

[dsas]

I think there's some prior art that should be explored. @jasmussen shared this on slack:

• Go to the dashboard of the site
• Go to settings and toggle “Classic style” (what we’re untangling towards)
• Then click users
• Now there’s a “remove” quick action next to my user.

p1740053699666759/1740050962.720649-slack-C9EJ7KSGH

[taipeicoder]

@Automattic/lego will pick this up in the upcoming week. cc: @Copons

[enejb]

The https://dashboard.wordpress.com/ currently doesn't make sense for users that have no sites. They could be users that are newsletter subscribers or users that were removed from a site. They are able to go to this page via /profile settings navigation.

[taipeicoder]

March 7 Update

This is still in research phase.