Deleting Account
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Hi,
I've taken a look, but perhaps not a good enough of one, and can't seem to find how to delete an account.
If anyone knows, it'd be much appreciated!
Hi! I'm quite sorry but there is no currently such an option. Hope you do not mind if the account will remain as it is. It do not look like spoiling any sensitive info etc...
To be honest most of programmers (and I also) do not like implementing deletion from databases because this operation should be usually very carefully implemented and tested to avoid leaving the database in some sort of inconsistent state.
Do you feel any differently about this after the numerous privacy laws that have been implemented since 2015? I can't even figure out how to change my password, let alone delete my account.
Do you feel any differently about this after the numerous privacy laws that have been implemented since 2015?
Definitely these laws made a lot of troubles for owners of small web-sites. Just imagine, how can one easily ensure storing private user's information per region (especially if it is not known which country user belongs to).
Our approach to avoid storing personal information at all. User's password is not stored (only salted hash) - and even is not required (if login via GH/FB is used). The name isn't required to be real, email too (though perhaps we should hash email).
We can implement some "Obfuscate" account button, which will change all user-related fields to some random stuff. However there was not strong demand for this yet and of course it would be unpleasant to see messsages "How to de-obfuscate my account which I have obfuscated non-intentionally despite all warnings" :)
I can't even figure out how to change my password
That's true, sorry. I intended to provide people with feature to switch to GH login instead (to more completely get rid of personal data remnants), but don't remember whether I did it yet :)
Pardon me but saying " but perhaps not a good enough of one." when you have done only 9 (that too not the later ones) and judging by the quality of the code , I don't think anybody will be interested enough to stalk you .
Also the thing that you talk about privacy but leave behind crucial info about you is very ironical (look at your code) . Sorry if I am misunderstanding but you are whinning on a pointless topic much like a troll .
Ok sorry , reading back i definitely misunderstood . Pardon me . There were two different people who replied . Please Excuse my dumb comment I made previously. My apologies