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An export feature would be nice
It would be nice to be able to press a button which would create a zipped file for me to download all of my content on Tildes. Just one markdown file for each post or comment I ever wrote on Tildes.
Also delightfully GDPR-compliant!
I just looked, there's no account delete option either?
You can delete your account by sending a message or email to @deimos.
Well, I don't want to, of course, but it would be a nice thing to have automated.
There is a scale issue - at the scale that Tildes operates, it makes a lot more sense to have Deimos do the work manually than to spend time doing the work to automate it. Remember that automating it has a lot of auxiliary parts that you have to build as well, such as where to put it on the site, how to ensure it's purposefully done, whether to delete all the content, or keep comments but delete authorship, etc. Right now I'm pretty sure you can say "delete my account, but you can keep my comments for posterity" and that's fine, or you can say "delete everything I have ever said" and that also works.
For what it's worth, there is an open (and accepted) issue for this from five years ago:
Option to export data from your account
I would like to see this too. Pages for data export and account deletion are on the list of things Tildes (the code) would need to become a viable Lemmy/Discourse alternative for other forums looking to set up their own website.
Just curious, why?
Well, I for one have written several blog posts' worth of content here and if I were gonna setup a blog it'd be nice to export to have a starting point.
The main reason is that I wish to keep all my previous writing concentrated in Org-Roam so I can easily and promptly make use of that content as either inspiration or a component of new things I am writing now. I put a lot of effort in some of my contributions, and I often find myself using the search bar in order to find a piece of the puzzle that is already done. Recreating previous observations is tedious and inefficient.
I agree, it would be great to be able to get a zip file of your own comments. I would guess that it has to be a batch job to avoid overloading the database.
Maybe you already know this, but the way I search my old Tildes comments is by going to my profile, clicking the "Comments" tag, and using that search box. It's a full-text search, unlike the main search. I can usually find a particular comment I'm looking for that way.
Oh yeah a batch job would be perfectly fine!
Yes I know about the search, thanks ;)