Username Purge
We are officially beginning our next username purge immediately. We are going to be setting any account that has been inactive since January 1st, 2010 to a deleted status. The accounts will have a 2 week period before their accounts are purged via the normal nightly purge process. We will not be posting a time when this purge will occur, nor will we be posting a list of purged accounts. If you receive an email stating your account was deleted, you have 2 weeks to log in and undelete the account. Please be aware that even though you don't see any posts or comments on an account, activity can be as simple as logging into the site or looking at your friends' page.
As asylums do not have an associated email address and usage is not as easily tracked, we are not going to include them in this purge. As always if you find an asylum that is inactive and you would like to take over maintainership, open a support request as there is a process to handle this.
These will be handled on a case by case and first come first serve basis.
As asylums do not have an associated email address and usage is not as easily tracked, we are not going to include them in this purge. As always if you find an asylum that is inactive and you would like to take over maintainership, open a support request as there is a process to handle this.
These will be handled on a case by case and first come first serve basis.
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.