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Username Purge

squeaky

5/12/11 04:13 pm

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.

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• tyger

  5/15/11 04:55 am (UTC)

  

  Just here to say I really, really dislike the way this was done. No notice, immediately setting journals to deleted, only two weeks to fix things? It's not courteous, not professional, and I really expected better.
  
  And for those of you in the comments?
  • Yes, when I post something I do expect it to be around forever. That's why this is a journalling site with a working archive.
  • It's not just about my content. I read more than I post, always, and there are things on IJ that I'm very fond of but didn't make myself. No notice means I can't even save them if they get purged.
  • Two weeks isn't actually all that long. It's quite possible to be without internet for that long, for any number of reasons, and having no notice about this means that things can get deleted that no one wants to be.
  • Usernames: not the be-all and end-all of the world. Seriously.

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  • amadi

    5/17/11 02:10 am (UTC)

    

    The only way to be sure that your stuff is around forever is to put it on a site that promises you that, or to pay for a server yourself that you control and can be ensure will be around for as long as you continue to pay for it. No such promises were ever made here. You also have no right to archive other people's content, so not being warned that someone else's journal was being deleted is moot.

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