> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tightknit.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete a member > Permanently deletes (erases) a member, the same way deleting a user in Slack does: their name becomes "Deactivated User", their email becomes a placeholder, their photos, profile field values and member notes are removed, and they are signed out everywhere. Their posts and comments stay up under the anonymized name. This cannot be undone, and a deleted member reads as a 404 from then on. A member with a linked Slack account is refused with a 409 `managed_by_slack`: delete the user in Slack instead. A member whose only Slack link is a cancelled invitation can be deleted. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi-v1.json delete /v1/profiles/{profile_id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Tightknit Admin API version: 1.0.0 description: Administrative access to a Tightknit community. servers: - url: https://api.tightknit.ai security: - Bearer: [] tags: - name: API keys description: Inspect the key a request authenticated with. - name: Awards description: Badges and certificates a community grants its members. - name: Events description: Read, create, update and delete events on the community calendar. - name: Journeys description: Read multi-step member programs and their milestones. - name: Tags description: The labels that classify events and content resources. - name: Groups description: The segments a community sorts its members into. - name: Content description: >- The collections a community files its content under, and the links and events in them. - name: Feeds description: The Slack channels and site-only spaces a community posts in. - name: Files description: Images and documents a community has uploaded. - name: Messages description: What a community has published. - name: Members description: The people in a community. - name: Slack messages description: >- Messages sent to Slack. Sending is the only operation: they cannot be read, edited or deleted here. - name: Compositions description: >- Message Blaster drafts: messages saved in Studio before, and kept after, they are sent to Slack channels and members. An API key sees only the compositions shared with every Studio user. - name: Follows description: What a member follows. - name: Polls description: The questions a community puts to its members in Slack. - name: Activity logs description: What members did in the community, and when. - name: System description: Service health. paths: /v1/profiles/{profile_id}: delete: tags: - Members summary: Delete a member description: >- Permanently deletes (erases) a member, the same way deleting a user in Slack does: their name becomes "Deactivated User", their email becomes a placeholder, their photos, profile field values and member notes are removed, and they are signed out everywhere. Their posts and comments stay up under the anonymized name. This cannot be undone, and a deleted member reads as a 404 from then on. A member with a linked Slack account is refused with a 409 `managed_by_slack`: delete the user in Slack instead. A member whose only Slack link is a cancelled invitation can be deleted. operationId: deleteProfile parameters: - schema: type: string pattern: ^prof_[a-zA-Z0-9]{12}$ description: The member's id. required: true description: The member's id. name: profile_id in: path responses: '200': description: Success headers: Request-Id: description: Identifier for this request, quote it in support tickets. schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeletedProfile' default: description: Error headers: Request-Id: description: Identifier for this request, quote it in support tickets. schema: type: string content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem' security: - Bearer: [] components: schemas: DeletedProfile: type: object properties: object: type: string enum: - profile description: Always `profile`. id: type: string description: The id of the deleted object. deleted: type: boolean enum: - true description: Always `true`. required: - object - id - deleted Problem: type: object properties: type: type: string description: A URI naming the problem type. Always `about:blank`. example: about:blank title: type: string description: A short summary of the HTTP status. example: Not found status: type: integer description: The HTTP status code. example: 404 detail: type: string description: What went wrong with this request, when there is more to say. code: type: string description: >- A stable, machine-readable error code to branch on, unlike `title` and `detail`. example: not_found param: type: string description: The request field or parameter the error is about, when one is. request_id: type: string description: >- The id of the request, also sent as the `Request-Id` header. Quote it in support tickets. example: req_9f2b8c1d4e5a6b7c8d9e0f1a2b3c4d5e required: - type - title - status - code securitySchemes: Bearer: type: http scheme: bearer bearerFormat: Tightknit API key description: 'A Tightknit admin API key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer `.' ```` ## Related topics - [Members](https://docs.tightknit.ai/studio/members.md) - [Manage Member Profiles](https://docs.tightknit.ai/profiles/manage-profiles.md) - [MCP Server](https://docs.tightknit.ai/integrations/mcp.md) - [Delete a feed member](https://docs.tightknit.ai/v1/api-reference/feeds/delete-a-feed-member.md) - [Delete a group membership](https://docs.tightknit.ai/v1/api-reference/groups/delete-a-group-membership.md) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.