Is exporting all posts from your user profile possible?

[MutantAndProud]

It should be a simple database export to CSV/txt/HTML/pdf from the admin side.

On the topic of semi-inaccessible DU features, and circling back to an old question from years back that I and others have probably asked before, was there ever a rationale given for not allowing self-elected account deletion/suspension?

[progree]

1. That would be nice. What I do is about every 25 days, I copy from it and paste into a Word file

and choose Original Formatting as the paste option -- that preserves the hyperlinks.

Then painfully I do find and replace (Control H) all "yesterday" with " May 14 " (with a space before and after) and "Monday" with " May 13 " and so on.

The "Posts" page says

Only your posts which were posted or replied to in the last 90 days are shown.

but I find it actually is limited to 30 days.

I'd like to put it in Excel (more possibilities for adding columns like some importance number, and sorting, etc.) but I haven't figured out a way that preserves the hyperlinks.

[MutantAndProud]

2. Possible yes

But it’s definitely not worth it for me to do that; been there done it with mobile browsers that were designed badly and couldn’t export anything.

[EarlG]

3. It may not be possible

Posts from your last 30 days are stored in a separate database table for ease of access and to reduce database queries, but otherwise, posts are stored in forum tables, which includes archived forum tables, so extracting them all by username may not be a simple process. This is not my area of expertise, but it's been explained to me in the past by Elad that it is not easy to do.

If someone requests that their account be deactivated, we can do that. We can also delete personal information connected to the account from our database (ie. the user's email address, or any information in their profile).

[MutantAndProud]

4. It is a complex process

I’ve done it manually and tweaked scripts, capturing each variable profile name and their links which change on a 30 day basis would be an undertaking, especially with archived content. Thanks!