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Allow users to export their own data

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#1,299 opened on Aug 13, 2024

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Description

Per a request, it would be nice to have an endpoint for a user to export their data like comments, stories, links to upvoted comments/stories, private messages. Though care has to be taken not to export other users' data.

This will need to be a background job as some users have substantial amounts of data. I'm pretty sure I heard Rails 8 is going to ship with SolidQueue so let's install that, store jobs in the db. There are a few things like email notifications that I've wanted to move to jobs for a while.

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Research direction
Explore implementing a background job with SolidQueue to export user data, ensuring privacy by not leaking other users' data. Look into the existing models (stories, comments, votes, private messages) and design a secure export endpoint.
Tech stack
rubyrails
Domain
backendapi
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3
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