861987 - Allow users to delete their webmaker account

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Login, defect)

Description

[Kieran Sedgwick (:sedge)]

Someone could want to disable/delete their webmaker profile.  We should have the server-side functionality ready for any UX implementation of this feature.

Comment 1

[Ross Bruniges [:boozeniges]]

Great bug :sedge.

So to flesh it out we need the following things for this delete call/integration.

API - /user/:email/delete

Validation - ensure that only the account owner can delete their own account, if someone tries to delete another persons account 403 them!

Comment 2

[David Humphrey (:humph)]

NOTE, this will also require some cascading deletes in the tools, in case they've published things to Thimble, Popcorn Maker, Make API, etc.

We should probably also think about what delete looks like.  For example, if you delete your Twitter account, you can still get your data back if you decide you made a mistake within N days.

Comment 3

[Ross Bruniges [:boozeniges]]

:humph - yeah I was wondering this.

Am wondering that instead of a mass delete of everything we instead set a flag that removes stuff from views.

Not sure how this works with moz privacy rules though - if people want to delete should we not fully delete stuff?

Comment 4

[Kieran Sedgwick (:sedge)]

I think the answer is two options:

1) Disable - removes all listings of the profile and created content, but keeps the content
2) Delete - purges profile and all content

Comment 5

[Kieran Sedgwick (:sedge)]

Sorry, missed the references in that comment.

:humph
:booze

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

It is with sadness that I don't mark this as a blocker, but I think it's something we'll want to resolve PDQ after we "ship".

Comment 7

[Brett Gaylor [:brett]]

This is actually nearly resolved!  see:
https://login.mofostaging.net/account

Links from your name in user bar.