No way to delete your Django account

[kevinrenskers]

I have an old-style non-Github account that I used on https://code.djangoproject.com/ in the past, and I found no way to delete this account myself (which seems in violation of GDPR rules?). It should probably be possible to delete your own account, or at least the procedure to ask for this should be made clear.

See also https://discord.com/channels/856567261900832808/1311792124286730512.

p.s. I was kind of surprised that the URLs https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/, https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/account/ and https://www.djangoproject.com/account/ all didn't work, I would've expected that I could manage my Django account there (since there are https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/register/ and https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/password_reset/ after all).

(p.p.s. Why doesn't the forum work with Django accounts? It's a strange split system with Django accounts that can't be managed anywhere on the Django site or the Issues site, and a forum that doesn't work with these accounts.)

[bmispelon]

@kevinrenskers I've been working on this in the past few days and put together a "delete account" view on the site: #1786. I'd appreciate your feedback on it.

Regarding your questions:

• The "manage account" page does exist though I do agree that it's basically impossible to discover. It's at https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/edit/
• The split system for login is a historical artefact and has been a big pain in my backside for a while. Long story short: the forum is hosted completely externally and has no access to the user database that djangoproject.com has. The issues site is hosted locally, but it's not a Django project and as such is not integrated to the user databases beyong being able to use it for logging in.

[kevinrenskers]

It seems like good improvements in that PR, I'm just not sure how a user would find this delete account option? This is on https://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/edit/ I assume? Which I never knew about.