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Soft deletion is rarely used to actually undelete data, because deletion has side effects that a flag cannot reverse.
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What Brandur Leach actually said
- Brandur Leach Software engineer at River, previously at Stripe
As far as I'm aware, never once, in ten plus years, did anyone at any of these places ever actually use soft deletion to undelete something.
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↗Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth Itbrandur.org
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