[goatinaboat]

Signed up for reddit in 2007 and last week finally decided to run "shreddit" and delete my entire post and comment history from the website

If only HN offered that option for people who signed up under identities that could be linked to their real identity back in the day when the Internet was sane(r).

It will live on in archive.org indefinitely anyway.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I remember once signing up for Disqus (I think), or some other “combined” commenter SaaS.

After I had entered my info, but before completing the process, it said “We found all these comments out there. Are any of them yours?”

It displayed a list of ancient stuff; a lot of it posted anonymously (I thought).

I was horrified, and immediately binned the signup.

The Internet can be a downright creepy place.

[novok]

Hear hear, there are old usernames that I wish I could delete from HN.

[leni536]

Please, no. It makes sense to remove username from a post. Removing content is horrible.

[goatinaboat]

Sure, but it could revert the username to Anonymous Coward, like other sites do. The acid test will be when someone decides to make it a GDPR issue, then HN will need to pull its finger out and implement this simple function users have been asking about for years.