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You Know Where Else It’s Hard To Delete Your Account? Mahalo
- awa 16y agoNicely done, Techcrunch!
- kevinh 16y agoCalacanis responds in the comments: "1. No one has ever asked for an export key, but we have one being built. Will be ready shortly. 2. We will have a delete account page by the end of next week. NIce job with the gotcha journalism! :-)"
- potatolicious 16y agoGood to know that engineering effort at Mahalo is being diverted in response to PR backlash due to the CEO running his mouth.
- ryanhuff 16y agoJason is backing up his rhetoric with action, and the end result will be positive for him, Mahalo, and its users.
- ryanhuff 16y agoTo the down-voters. What is it you disagree with? Separate emotion from the analysis. Besides again being fuel for Jason/Mahalo discussion on the various tech forums, the end result is that Jason will have a tangible example when arguing about FB. Mahalo's users will get a new feature to easily delete their accounts, and Mahalo gets some exposure. The assertion that this blew up in Jason's face seems more wishful thinking.
- coderdude 16y agoWhat a waste of everyone's time. You know where else it's hard to delete your account? On a ton of Web sites. Many sites do not include this option. I also don't see an (obvious) way to delete your account off of Hacker News. Would you have to email Paul Graham?
- Locke1689 16y agoWould you have to email Paul Graham? Yes.
- houseabsolute 16y agoHang on, is PG posturing about how bad Facebook is for making it tough to delete your account? If no, I don't think that's relevant.
- coderdude 16y agoIt was just an example, but I admit it might sound as if Hacker News had something to do with all this.
- samd 16y agoDoes Mahalo store lots of people's private information and continue to make more of it accessible to the public?
- houseabsolute 16y agoI don't know, but based on what I've heard I hope I never have occasion to find out. ;)
- gxti 16y agoCan Arrington and Calacanis fight to the death already? I've been following HN now for less than a week and I'm already sick of their shenanigans.
- rumpelstiltskin 16y agoPredicting a Jason nation rant on this hitting inboxes in 3, 2, 1...