Day: July 21, 2025
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Replit’s Controversial Data Deletion: What Happened?
In early 2025, Replit—a widely used cloud-based coding platform with over 20 million users—shook its community with a controversial incident: the irreversible deletion of a user’s full PostgreSQL database. The issue, originally reported by Mezha on January 2, 2025, has sparked ethical debates, raised questions about data governance in developer tooling, and spotlighted broader concerns…