albatros

I’m not sure it’s ok in the GDPR rules?

That would probably be related to “right to erasure”.

But even this has limits, since sometimes the data can be necessary for a service (for example, you might be unable to get invoice data erased before X years, as a legal requirement)

Since messages on forums can be considered “needed” to understand a thread, it’s usually advised to make all messages anonymous if a user requests complete deletion.

I guess here it’s a little different, since the messages were removed by users, so it’s not a gdpr request. Not sure how it works in that case.

Other issue is if the messages themselves contain personal information… Someone going through my old reddit profile could probably figure out my identity since I mentioned one of my (very uncommon) previous job a few times.

Best way to figure out how it works here would probably be to contact the gdpr authority for your country… And they might have trouble with it too.

Chip shortage really hit them hard… At some point I even had a Firefox extension that would send me a notification when they were available somewhere.

It’s supposed to get better by the end of the year though.