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Do you have a source?

• JumpCrisscross 6y ago
  > Do you have a source? OP asked respondents to weigh in anonymously. That’s a call for anecdotes.
• kevincox 6y ago
  Soft deletes are generally a good idea. Being to recover data for some time is very useful. Ideally this is also exposed to users. However respectable companies will keep this time-limited. For example Google has very strict deadlines on all of their deleted data wiping. Their privacy policy is quite vague but gives some examples: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention
• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  I have seen this come up periodically, and it seems to be the case that for various reasons soft deletes are the way it is actually done. here is one not particularly recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954393 Now that I think of it I would probably have done soft delete if I got around to automating deleting accounts at my old startup for lots of reasons. on edit: another more recent article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060
• rco8786 6y ago
  10 years in the industry I guess, and the article linked