TIL that your @netlify preview and branch deploys stick around forever, the only way to get rid of them is to delete the entire site. Better hope you never commit anything confidential/sensitive or any JS that calls out to external services... 🤦‍♂️

Oct 28, 2021 · 10:21 PM UTC

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Replying to @aaronpk @Netlify
hey! we're aware of this & it's definitely something we're fixing. it looks like it's rolling out Q1-ish in the meantime, we can delete anything you need deleted if you open a topic in the forums answers.netlify.com/ (I know that's not ideal, but we'll get you taken care of)
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Thank you! This is much needed. We ended up deleting the whole site and starting over and luckily it went extremely smoothly.
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Replying to @aaronpk @Netlify
Oh no! How is it like on @vercel?
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Don't know, I've never used it. I'm just getting bit by this @netlify issue on a project right now and it's incredibly frustrating.
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Replying to @aaronpk @Netlify
Surely not?! That is crazy
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Right?? answers.netlify.com/t/old-ne…

Old Netlify previews are indexed by Google - how to remove?

Hi, @edfryed. There is no way to delete an individual deploy. The only way to delete a deploy is to delete all the deploys by deleting the site itself. If you need to do this for an existing site,...

answers.netlify.com
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Replying to @aaronpk
This has been my main issue with @Netlify as well :/
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Replying to @aaronpk @Netlify
Well that's an exciting discovery! Good thing we aren't doing anything important with things like write-only cryptographic data structures at a large scale, right?