The Konami Code is a feature of many video games where you press a secret sequence of buttons on your controller and then a cheat code is activated in the game. Alteryx Server has a similar function that can cause some major negative consequences.
Alteryx describes this hidden function in a Knowledge Base article and other Server users have stumbled upon it. What happens is that you will move a user from one studio to another... and discover that potentially hundreds of workflows have migrated along with the user. There is no easy way (as of the date of writing) to move the workflows back from whence they came. You can download and upload each workflow one by one, but the common advice is to roll back to a MongoDB backup, which is disruptive for the end-users.
According to the Alteryx engineers, a specific set of circumstances and actions must be met in order for this to happen:
However, we had an accidental Konami Code yesterday and took some time to carefully recreate what we did to cause it, and what were the effects.
Even without satisfying item #3, the workflows from the initial studio did move to the target studio. Additionally, all of the workflows from a handful of other studios ALSO moved to the target studio. At least one of those was set to Paid, not free.
Lessons to be learned:
Be careful out there!