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Undo is hard, not a core competency for most companies, and most users don't care. In fact, many users don't want deletes to be undoable, they want deletes to be delete.

You could probably make a stronger case for improving deletes by overwriting the disk space with garbage and ensuring users that no derivatives were left around. That would be a selling point.

Imagine SnapChat with undo...



Undo is hard? With web apps most developers complain that it's actually too hard to delete things so they use a delete flag instead...


Delete can be hard too...

Undo is definitely harder.




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