{"id":35163,"date":"2022-03-03T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35163"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:30:33","slug":"goodreads-data-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/goodreads-data-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads Data Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somebits.com\/weblog\/tech\/bad\/goodreads-lost-all-my-data.html\">Nelson Minar<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nelson\/status\/1498370009973723137\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.somebits.com\/weblog\/tech\/bad\/goodreads-lost-all-my-data.html\"><p>Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I&rsquo;ve never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their users&rsquo; data.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t trust any cloud service with the only copy of your data. Most companies are not quite so reckless but consider what you&rsquo;d miss if an uncaring company lost your data.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The specific bug is related to my removing Twitter API access to Goodreads last week (they stopped supporting Twitter login months before). Somehow that triggered their system to delete everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/goodreads-deleted-account\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/goodreads-deleted-account\/\">\n<p>These are big companies with big budgets and lots of customers, but they still act like they are just figuring this stuff out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Minar (tweet): Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I&rsquo;ve never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their users&rsquo; data. [&#8230;] Don&rsquo;t trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-03T20:29:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"902957a9-66d0-4477-b51c-c98f8ba4e6aa","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-03T20:30:36Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AkClXqWbQRHe1HMmPi6Tmqg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,35,1016,49,96],"class_list":["post-35163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-cloud","tag-datacide","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35169,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35163\/revisions\/35169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}