I think it’s because of the way databases work, the database is set to auto-increment, there’s not a use deleted mode that I’m aware of. The user id is the databases auto-increment unique key.
I think that would make more sense if the user deleted has a smaller user id than the largest one that currently exists. However even if I delete the user with the largest member id (integer), it still increments from the deleted id
I still think it’s the database that is dishing out the unique keys so it is what’s controlling the user id’s not WordPress itself. BuddyPress just uses the WordPress User Id.
Yeah youre right. It seems more like a mysql issue. However I still appreciate any on any opinions whether it would be not advised/smart to recycle ids.
This can be closed. Thx @Venutius
