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Revise social account deletion process #415

Open leppert opened 10 years ago

leppert commented 10 years ago

Base on this email from Andrew Janke janke@pobox.com:

Hi, Reading folks,

I think I ran in to a bug with the Reading.am hook to Twitter.

My Reading.am account is andrewjanke, and I have a Twitter account @apjisreading that I use as my reading stream. I used to have a hook for Reading to post everything to it, and you can see posts up through July 2013. About that time, I decided to pull way back on my Internet presence, so I deleted the hook on the Reading site, and on Twitter's Settings > Apps, revoked access for Reading, to be extra sure.

Now I want to add the hook to @apjisreading back in, but can't get it to work. I added a new hook, and "Andrew is reading", the name for my @apjisreading account, shows up in the dropdown. When I hit "Thanks!" the hook appears in the list saying it'll post to @apjisreading. But when I post URLs on Reading, they never make it to my Twitter account. I think Reading doesn't realize that its access was revoked.

I don't see a mechanism to have Reading forget the old account or to attempt re-authorization. And if I try to do a "+connect new" instead of reusing the old account when creating the hook, I get an error that says:

https://reading.am

You tried to connect a new Twitter account but you're logged in to one of your existing Twitter accounts. Log in to the new account on Twitter and try again.

So I can't see a way to get this account hooked back up to Reading. Could you add something that allows Twitter accounts to be forgotten or re-authorized?

Cheers, Andrew