The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
An interactive demonstration of why ‘deleted’ does not always mean deleted.
Create an entry, delete it, and see what remains.
The public feed
Everything looks clean.
The public feed shows your visible entries. Add a text post to begin.
3visible
Nothing to see here.The screen is empty. The database is not.
The delete controls
Make it disappear.
Choose an entry to remove from the public interface. It will no longer appear in The Good.
3remaining
All gone?No visible entries remain. Visit The Ugly to see what happens next.
The simulated database
Deleted, but still here.
The entry still exists. Its visibility state changed from visible to hidden.
3rows kept
Soft delete
Fast and reversible. The record stays stored, but queries exclude it.
Hard delete
The row is actually removed. Backups, logs, caches, and legal retention may still complicate true erasure.