> 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?

I don’t know how to accomplish that. That thought crossed my mind as well 

> 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

Name something you once wanted that you're happy to have never received?

k00b

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.