You seem to misunderstand this websites purpose if you think it's supposed to maintain an archive for all of it's users. This is not dropbox,com or mozy.com. It's not a storage unit for your game. If you are no longer actively using a journal, why should this website be forced to maintain it for you?
You know what you can do, you can go to a web page that has all your content and save it, in it's entirety, right to your computer. It's as simple as right clicking and choosing "Save Page As". No lost icons, no lost text or comments. It will open that page up exactly as it looked when you saved it.
It's your responsibility to save your own information. It's ridiculous to assume any website, whose service is aimed at something other than archival and data storage, should have to do that for you.
Please stop speaking as though your oh so high and mighty opinion is the weight of this entire decision or that the fact that you "threw money at the server" makes any difference. I'm speaking from my own experience, owning two permanent accounts, coming from GJ, and LJ, and being an online blogger for over 7 years. I'm grateful for the service that![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
squeaky offers, and while I might not allows agree with every decision he makes as an administrator, I appreciate his dedication, his informative posts, his yearly purges, his black-friday sales, and his willingness to listen to the community which is something that GJ and LJ rarely did or do.
You know what you can do, you can go to a web page that has all your content and save it, in it's entirety, right to your computer. It's as simple as right clicking and choosing "Save Page As". No lost icons, no lost text or comments. It will open that page up exactly as it looked when you saved it.
It's your responsibility to save your own information. It's ridiculous to assume any website, whose service is aimed at something other than archival and data storage, should have to do that for you.
Please stop speaking as though your oh so high and mighty opinion is the weight of this entire decision or that the fact that you "threw money at the server" makes any difference. I'm speaking from my own experience, owning two permanent accounts, coming from GJ, and LJ, and being an online blogger for over 7 years. I'm grateful for the service that
squeaky offers, and while I might not allows agree with every decision he makes as an administrator, I appreciate his dedication, his informative posts, his yearly purges, his black-friday sales, and his willingness to listen to the community which is something that GJ and LJ rarely did or do.