Commit d721f52c by John Hawthorn

Add a very soft deprecation notice

This isn't a change from how paranoia has been developed for the past
few years, but makes it more explicit.

I hope the recommendation against new projects using paranoia isn't too
controversial. I think anyone who has used this gem extensively has been
surprised by it many times. This is just the nature of replacing
ActiveRecord's behaviour. I believe paranoia does extremely well given
that it does that.

A lot of developers will reach for paranoia or acts_as_paranoid because
they're the first result they will find. However most users are just
looking to hide or disable some records, and they would do much better
to just toggle a flag rather than have paranoia override ActiveRecord's
behaviour on their model.

I hope linking to discard here isn't inappropriate, I believe it's the
best resource describe the caveats of paranoia as well as give a good
example of how to soft-delete without needing paranoia or
acts_as_paranoid.
parent 021551fc
**Notice:**
`paranoia` has some surprising behaviour (like overriding ActiveRecord's `delete` and `destroy`) and is not recommended for new projects. See [`discard`'s README](https://github.com/jhawthorn/discard#why-not-paranoia-or-acts_as_paranoid) for more details.
Paranoia will continue to accept bug fixes and support new versions of Rails but isn't accepting new features.
# Paranoia
Paranoia is a re-implementation of [acts\_as\_paranoid](http://github.com/ActsAsParanoid/acts_as_paranoid) for Rails 3/4/5, using much, much, much less code.
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