Disable bloganuary

[allilevine]

Related to https://github.com/Automattic/loop/issues/242

Proposed Changes

• Add an explicit disable for bloganuary.
• Related diff: D167949-code

Why are these changes being made?

• See p5uIfZ-gxX-p2

Testing Instructions

• Check out this branch locally.
• Change this line to return: true;
• Verify that the regular writing prompt, not the Bloganuary writing prompt, shows on My Home.

Regular writing prompt	Bloganuary writing prompt

Pre-merge Checklist

• Has the general commit checklist been followed? (PCYsg-hS-p2)
• Have you written new tests for your changes?
• Have you tested the feature in Simple (P9HQHe-k8-p2), Atomic (P9HQHe-jW-p2), and self-hosted Jetpack sites (PCYsg-g6b-p2)?
• Have you checked for TypeScript, React or other console errors?
• Have you used memoizing on expensive computations? More info in Memoizing with create-selector and Using memoizing selectors and Our Approach to Data
• Have we added the "[Status] String Freeze" label as soon as any new strings were ready for translation (p4TIVU-5Jq-p2)?
  • For UI changes, have we tested the change in various languages (for example, ES, PT, FR, or DE)? The length of text and words vary significantly between languages.
• For changes affecting Jetpack: Have we added the "[Status] Needs Privacy Updates" label if this pull request changes what data or activity we track or use (p4TIVU-aUh-p2)?

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[matticbot]

Here is how your PR affects size of JS and CSS bundles shipped to the user's browser:

Sections (~18 bytes removed 📉 [gzipped])

name                             parsed_size           gzip_size
reader                                 -65 B  (-0.0%)      -18 B  (-0.0%)
plugins                                -65 B  (-0.0%)      -18 B  (-0.0%)
jetpack-cloud-plugin-management        -65 B  (-0.0%)      -18 B  (-0.0%)
home                                   -65 B  (-0.0%)      -18 B  (-0.0%)

Sections contain code specific for a given set of routes. Is downloaded and parsed only when a particular route is navigated to.

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What is parsed and gzip size?

Parsed Size: Uncompressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much code needs to be parsed and stored in memory.
Gzip Size: Compressed size of the JS and CSS files. This much data needs to be downloaded over network.

Generated by performance advisor bot at iscalypsofastyet.com.

[matticbot]

This PR modifies the release build for the following Calypso Apps:

For info about this notification, see here: PCYsg-OT6-p2

• notifications
• wpcom-block-editor

To test WordPress.com changes, run install-plugin.sh $pluginSlug disable/bloganuary on your sandbox.

[mehmoodak]

Can we just use return false here? ..... alternatively we can use moment and if the year is 2025 then return false.

[allilevine]

I could return false, but then I'd need to rip out most of the code here (which the issue asked that we not do). I wanted to make it clearer that this was intentional and preserve the current return logic.

We could check for 2025, but I'm worried we'll forget to disable it for 2026. 😂