Where have all the flowers gone?

The ''deleted user #'' refers to when we amended the security for the Forum by requiring the players game name and account to be connected. At this time every member was deleted and asked to re-join using their player name. Official announcement from 2020 here
What this now means is if a players account is deleted, the Forum account is also deleted, also at times support is asked to remove the Forum account for players, to give a couple of examples why the members number can fluctuate.