Accounts

According to the Help page:

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This site does not support permanent removal of accounts. This is necessary to prevent the creation of multiple accounts with the same access name or e-mail address ... The fact that this site does not delete accounts is explained in the terms of use that all users must read and agree before they are allowed to register.
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Putting important stuff like non-removal of accounts in some kind of EULA is very poor practice. No-one reads that stuff and concealing a sting in there is basically entrapment. I strongly recommend you change this policy - you will never build a developer community through deception.

There seems to be a misunderstanding.

This site is transparent. The policy is explained in the site terms of use and in the FAQ page. It is presented before any user registers to the site. It is not hidden.

phpclasses.org/faq/#delete-account

There are other sites that do not remove accounts permanently. They just pretend to remove the accounts but keep your account data.

The way to know when that happens is to ask to remove your account, then try to create a new account with the same user name and email address. If the site says you cannot create an account with that user name or email address, it is because they really did not delete the account data.

This site does not do that now. Would it be better if it just allowed disabling the accounts but not really remove the account data as other sites do?

As for building a developer community, so far the site gathered over 1.2 million registered users, of which about 3600 published their own packages. That was possible due to the site transparency, and not about deception as you supposed.

phpclasses.org/browse/statistics/st ...