What should the ideal data export feature look like?
- Export all your data (yes, all of it), at any time
- Your content
- All metadata related to that content
- Your account info / settings / site preferences / etc.
- Any logs of your activity that are accessible to you
- Other?
- Multiple formats available; all of these that are appropriate:
- JSON
- XML
- CSV
- Conveniently packaged/distributed
- Available as a .zip / .tar.gz / whatever
- Convenient to acquire
- Just click a button in your profile/account view
- Also available via API endpoint
- When exporting data, any choices automatically made during export, or quirks of the export process, ought to be specified as additional metadata
- Example: if exporting comments, they will be (should be!) provided in both Markdown and HTML format; supposing that Markdown is available for some, but had to be synthesized from the HTML for others, this fact should be noted in an additional metadata field
