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You Know Where Else It’s Hard To Delete Your Account? Mahalo

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21 pointsMcKittrick15 comments

What a waste of everyone's time. You know where else it's hard to delete your account? On a ton of Web sites. Many sites do not include this option. I also don't see an (obvious) way to delete your account off of Hacker News. Would you have to email Paul Graham?

Would you have to email Paul Graham?

Yes.

Hang on, is PG posturing about how bad Facebook is for making it tough to delete your account? If no, I don't think that's relevant.

It was just an example, but I admit it might sound as if Hacker News had something to do with all this.

Does Mahalo store lots of people's private information and continue to make more of it accessible to the public?

I don't know, but based on what I've heard I hope I never have occasion to find out. ;)

Calacanis responds in the comments:

"1. No one has ever asked for an export key, but we have one being built. Will be ready shortly. 2. We will have a delete account page by the end of next week.

NIce job with the gotcha journalism! :-)"

Good to know that engineering effort at Mahalo is being diverted in response to PR backlash due to the CEO running his mouth.

Jason is backing up his rhetoric with action, and the end result will be positive for him, Mahalo, and its users.

To the down-voters. What is it you disagree with?

Separate emotion from the analysis. Besides again being fuel for Jason/Mahalo discussion on the various tech forums, the end result is that Jason will have a tangible example when arguing about FB. Mahalo's users will get a new feature to easily delete their accounts, and Mahalo gets some exposure.

The assertion that this blew up in Jason's face seems more wishful thinking.

Based on his past such promises here, we will have to wait until it is actually done.

Fair enough.

Can Arrington and Calacanis fight to the death already? I've been following HN now for less than a week and I'm already sick of their shenanigans.

Predicting a Jason nation rant on this hitting inboxes in 3, 2, 1...

Nicely done, Techcrunch!

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