from Hacker News

We had our YouTube channel for "erpnext" and a few videos in an older channel called "webnotestech". To consolidate our videos I tried to move the old account to our main "erpnext" account and it deleted all our old videos with 2M views and 11k subscribers!

I am a pretty proficient user and I wasn't drunk or anything, this is just bad UX. Agreed I may not have read all the details, but there is no way YouTube should be doing this.

My feelings: Life is transient and my faith in platforms has been so shaken. There is no way to contact any kind of support for this other than "Feedback". To all engineers, product managers out there. Please be cognizant of the impact your UX decisions make on your users. And PLEASE MAKE IT HARD TO DELETE data.

If any kind YouTube engineers out here, please check if you can undelete our main channel.