I asked a friend to send me a clone link to his app. After cloning it, I noticed that all the Data Tables in the cloned app are empty.
This seems new. I remember that cloning an app used to include the table data as well. The message in the UI still says, “This link will create a copy of your app (including its Data Tables and their data)”, which matches what I recall from before.
So I’m not sure if this is a bug (data not being copied anymore) or if this behavior has recently changed and the UI message just hasn’t been updated.
On a related note, I once made a feature request asking to make copying the data optional.
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Apologies if I overstepped, but I tried to clarify the title to reflect your question, as I understand it.
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A reasonable default might be, clone the data if you already own it (i.e., you’re cloning one of your own apps), but not if someone else owns it (cloning someone else’s app).
Another consideration is when the cloning takes place. The link takes a snapshot of the source code, but not the data, so the data gets cloned only when the clone app is created. That could be months or years later. By then, the tables’ structures may have changed, the tables may have been moved to a different database, or may not even exist anymore.