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ben509 on Aug 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Instagram kept deleted photos and messages on its ...

Deletion is effectively a failure mode, and engineering tends to focus on the happy path.

FridgeSeal on Aug 14, 2020 [–]

Only if you treat it like one.

Arguably a well designed system should be built to handle having certain user data deleted without interrupting or breaking anything.

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