With over 700 things in my @Pocket@twitter.com list, it was time to clean up.
So... of course, I accidentally deleted 650 things (instead of archiving them) and now i've lost 5 years of research.
"Are you sure" isn't the right approach to stopping users from doing something this strong
This is also an issue with "cloud storage". there are no 'backups'. You have one copy and you're one mistake away. I'm not trying to be a luddite here, I'm not asking to go back to local file storage.
Just thinking about what is the right way to a) protect and b) 'backup'
And I want to be clear. I totally did the 'wrong' thing. At a superficial level, I screwed up. My point is that a large cloud data corpus needs a different model than 'are you sure' (which is a hold over from local file paradigms)
@scottjenson and "delete this, are you sure" is terrible even for local stuff, rather than providing unlimited undo forever...