flumedb-delete

current progress on deleting content from flumedb

The source code opens two instances of flumedb: a and b. Each of the messages are streamed with a.stream() and appended to be with b.append() as long as they pass the filter. The filter checks whether the message author is "bob", and only appends messages that do not have that author.

If being used with Scuttlebutt, this module does not delete blobs.

Install

git@github.com:fraction/flumedb-delete.git
cd flumedb-delete

Usage

This module includes a small demonstration in index.js.

npm start

To delete a feed, first select a valid ssb feed id, and run these two commands:

node ssb.js --id='feedId'
node delete-views

It can also help to private block a feed, so that it doesn't resync later:

scuttlebot publish --type contact --blocking --recps 'yourId' --contact 'feedId'

If you'd like to delete a Scuttlebutt feed, you can experiment with ssb.js. Please keep in mind that this is highly experimental and you should only participate in this experiment if you're comfortable with losing your SSB database.

1. Turn off all Scuttlebutt services.
2. Delete content from your log with node ssb.js.
3. Delete your views with node delete-views.js
4. Restart Scuttlebutt
5. Wait for views to regenerate.
6. Keep waiting...
7. Done! You've deleted a feed from your database.

If you'd like to delete a different SSB feed, edit ssb.js manually.

Maintainers

@fraction

Contributing

PRs accepted.

License

MIT © 2018 Fraction LLC