When I “delete” a comment, all it does is replace the text with “deleted by creator”. It doesn’t even hide my username. This is different from previous behaviour where the comment was entirely removed from the public view.
I should be in control of my comment. If I want to delete it then it should be entirely removed - at least from the public view. I don’t want to make comments knowing that I’m permenantly etching my username into the stone of the thread forever with no ability to delete it. I’m highly put off from engaging now that I can’t reliably delete what I write.
Being able to undo the deletion is fine but the undo really should only last 1h or maybe 24h before the comment is properly deleted.
As for your username being attached to the comment, that is an issue. I just checked, and yeah even logged out you still see it.
What needs to be done is the deleted comment should only have your username visible when you’re logged in - everyone else should see a blank username, maybe moderators should be able to see it though.
However I disagree about the timeout. I want to be able to recover my comments indefinitely. If there is to be a permanent deletion (and legally speaking there probably needs to be, one which removes it from the server) it should be an extra step.
There are, I guess, three front end levels.
Delete, moderator delete (invisible to all but mods, at least for top level posts), and Purge (admin level, wipes the content from the local database).
I’m hoping to have a bit of a dive and an experiment once things have settled down here a bit.
It would probably be good to have a test instance - maybe that other one could be spun up with minimal resources and heavily restricted access?
I’d also suggest speaking to /u/sunaurus@lemm.ee. He seems to really knows his stuff. When shit hit the fan with bigger instances (DDOS attacks and SQL exploits), his instance was already immune and he still stepped up to the plate to help others sort things out.
There is absolutely a plan for a test instance, you’ll be pleased to hear.
Especially because I really want somewhere I can test upgrades or changes without impacting a live site.
That is indeed good to hear.
This is just a poke reply in case you didn’t see my edit.
Aha, I see it now.
I may have a look at what they’ve said, cheers for that.
I don’t think he comments much, he’s more of a coder. He’s like /u/tom@feddit.uk, if he was actually active lol.
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