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Same here. I finally brought accidentally deleting stuff down to zero by having them type the number they get to lose:

"You have 55,231 GitHub stars. Please type 55231 if you want to delete them all."

But I guess, if you delete repos often enough, this will also become muscle memory.

Edit: Just saw the other comment here suggesting the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033996



So, for projects with 100+ stars, add a wait period of 60 seconds until the delete button can be clicked _after_ the number is typed in. That should allow most users on autopilot to snap out of it, or make drunk users switch to a different tab and forget about it.


almost all of my projects have < 5 stars, typing "0" half the time is more dangerous than typing my_name/my_repo.


Better to flag it as archived. This way they can unarchive if need be.


just do soft deletes that can be undone... seems so easy..




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