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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-09-04 at 20:25

New rule: if you give someone the ability to bulk delete things, even with warnings and confirmation dialogs, someone will immediately delete everything in their account and then ask you to restore it.

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Written by Steven Harman on 2024-09-04 at 22:34

@jamie soft delete with a delayed hard delete is a reasonable way to go.

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Written by Jamie Lawrence on 2024-09-05 at 08:42

@stevenharman soft delete is ok for small things (an individual model, not the god model and all associations) but we’ve been bitten by it too many times.

In this case it was ActiveStorage files. We could patch AS to delay blob deletion, or soft delete with a default scope, but both have quite high technical & UX complexity.

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