diyrebel

@diyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨homeimprovement@lemmy.world GONE! How did this happen? Who could be so destructive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  🎉 Great news! Glad we can access past threads.

  This episode has made it clear Lemmy software needs to improve. The possible #LemmyBug/enhancements:

  ① the fix was apparently not just flipping a switch— it required hacking the db, correct? Shouldn’t admins have a simple undelete button?

  ② what if a rogue admin had deleted the community, and perhaps even destroyed the db? In principle it should be possible to rebuild the community on a different node using data from all nodes that have data.

  ③ each user’s subscriptions panel should not simply cease to list the deleted community. The community name should remain and have indicators to signal issues (e.g. 💀, ⚠).

  ④ msgs users write are stored in their profile & responses are stored in their inbox. But this is poor organization. Users are dependent on the server’s representation of the community to show threads in a coherent way. Clients should have that capability too. I should be able to click “context” on any msg and the client should be able to show me a sequence of msgs regardless of the state of the server host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨homeimprovement@lemmy.world GONE! How did this happen? Who could be so destructive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Correction-- I was just able to trace back to see how I figured out what the community address was. When I mouse-over “deleted@lemmy.world” on an old post of my own to the deleted community (from my profile), the underlying link is: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world. So I think it’s only because I am not on lemmy.world myself that this was revealed. I suspect when users are on the same instance where the deletion happened, the original name may not appear. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨homeimprovement@lemmy.world GONE! How did this happen? Who could be so destructive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Going forward is not the issue since we have !homeimprovement@disflux.org. The problem is recovering what was lost. Where is the backup data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨homeimprovement@lemmy.world GONE! How did this happen? Who could be so destructive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah it was tricky because the community name was overwritten with “deleted@lemmy.world”. I was only able to rediscover what the original community address was by some strange anomaly of like an autocomplete in a search field or something. The existence of the community is scrubbed even on lemmyverse.net.

• homeimprovement@lemmy.world GONE! How did this happen? Who could be so destructive?
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