What are "Tombstones"?

The Players section of the Nakama console has this Tombstones toggle. When I turn it on, no players are displayed. I haven’t found anything about it in the documentation.

What does this toggle do, exactly?

Hi @VojtaStruhar,

Tombstones are records for accounts that are deleted using the accountDeleteId with the recorded param set to true.

What this will do is store the user_id (an opaque UUID) into the tombstones table.

The purpose of this table is to be GDPR and “the right to be forgotten” compliant, as it allows to delete the user accounts again if a database backup is restored.

The toggle is to filter/display accounts that have been deleted with recorded = true.

Hope this clarifies.

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Thanks, that is what I was looking for!