Download Account Data

[IamPuma]

So when user's decide to delete their FA account, I thought having an option under where it says

Disable / Delete Account​

Have this under it

Download All Of your Data: Where you download all of your Furaffinity Data such as Submissions, Journals, Notes etc.

 

[luffy]

Brought it up!

 

[RestrainedRaptor]

FA are certainly legally required to give you this data if you formally request it, due to EU's GDPR and similar laws in California and other countries. It makes sense to put some resources into automating the process, otherwise getting that data is 100% manual and probably takes some poor database guy a few hours to compile it.

 

[ben909]

o if this is bring brought up, is there a way to do this for notifications, i noticed that fa did not actually follow through with deleting year old messages, but i don't like mass delete when it could undo newer messages

 

[RestrainedRaptor]

They did follow through with this once, and they subsequently announced it with "7/18/19 - Site Outage & Removal of Old Notifications". I had a very small number of notifications at the time, but I was keeping some of them as reminders. Many of them were over a year old, so despite the fact that I was using very little server space, they were deleted anyway. I filed a trouble ticket asking for them to be restored, and my request was refused.

In summary, deleting messages based on age is not the best way to go. It would make more sense to limit the total number of messages instead.

Interestingly, looking back on that journal, they said "we removed unread notifications which were older than a year". I don't know what they meant by that, since submissions and other regular notifications do not have a read/unread state.

As for your specific situation, you could consider saving a static copy of your notifications page as an HTML file, and then nuke your messages on the live site. You can then refer to your saved copy later.