> one day I must verify this though, still on my todo to clone your repo and poke around, but fml too much other stuff to deal with at the moment, lol :)

[Relevant lines](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/blob/8ace053be5fc27262e5ad92b7cb215794371696d/api/resolvers/item.js#L588-L609) where you can see we overwrite the item content. But don't trust us, verify for yourself. I actually prefer when people don't trust us. :)

But sometimes I wonder if being OSS is actually enough. How can we proof that this is actually the code that is running in the backend?

nemo

I saw the original. Our deletes are truly permanent. We do not store what has been deleted or what something was before it was edited.