Edit: This requires some careful thought before proceeding, I'm thinking we could provide an option to recycle the username during deletion, or reserve it for the original account creator for 90 days. Safe to say, I haven't decided yet!

I get a lot of requests for people wanting to re-join pixelfed.social after permanently deleting their account.

Maybe usernames should be re-usable after a period of 30 days.

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Григорий Клюшников

Why would they ever not be reusable? The very idea of a username not getting freed when the corresponding account is deleted feels extremely bizarre to me.

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Steve Dinn

@dansup Perhaps the solution could be to have a "permanent" deletion mode where all content is deleted except for the username, email address, and password. So while no photos would remain, the user could still log in or reset their password.

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Carlos Francisco 🏴‍☠️

@dansup @pixelfed it could cause some problems and even identity fraud issues. Maybe, old user could recover username by using same email.

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Rocky Lhotka 🤘🖖

@dansup I just wish I could use the pixel fed android app to post photos, but it says pixelfed.social is running an old version of the software 😔

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