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rhythmic-chef-84815

08/24/2023, 7:42 AM
Why do we need to have a running experiment to use features? This feels confusing and also not practical, for me to test them I do not really need to have an experiment running but with these changes I am forced to.
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fresh-football-47124

08/24/2023, 9:40 AM
How are you running experiments?
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happy-autumn-40938

08/24/2023, 4:30 PM
We definitely support feature flags by themselves (with no experiment). Simply create a feature flag in the GrowthBook app, apply any targeting & attributes (or skip this entirely for an always on/off flag), and implement in the SDK: https://docs.growthbook.io/lib/js#quick-usage
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rhythmic-chef-84815

08/25/2023, 7:04 AM
Well before all I had to do was create a feature, add the targeting conditions and turn it on, this is what we did to be able to use it. But now I can only turn it on or edit the traffic split if there is an experiment running. Basically before when creating a new feature we had the option A/B Experiment but now it is either New A/B Experiment or Existing A/B Experiment.
By the way @happy-autumn-40938 I am talking about the UI itself not the code part, the flow for features definitely changed.
To test the experiments in our non production environments we are now force to start an experiment which is not necessary and creates a lot of unnecessary phases for the experiment.
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happy-autumn-40938

08/25/2023, 5:52 PM
How are you setting up your forced value or rollout rules? Is this a flag that you're wanting to (eventually) link to an experiment, or just a standalone flag? For the latter, I was able to create a valid feature without referencing an experiment at all by using these buttons:
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rhythmic-chef-84815

09/04/2023, 8:06 AM
We did not used forced or percentage rollout before, only a/b experiment. I would say this change is more a surprise because the way we use to do our feature testing to confirm it is working is no longer an option because of what I mentioned. So you suggestion is to use percentage rollout to test?
We basically want to be able to “test” the feature without creating an experiment to do so, including traffic split
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