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Username Purge (an update)

squeaky

5/13/11 08:11 am

This is going to take probable 3-4 weeks to get all of the inactive accounts as there are a lot of them and I don't want to kill the servers doing this.

As always you can see what usernames are available here.

http://www.insanejournal.com/purged_usernames.bml

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• vader

  5/13/11 07:57 pm (UTC)

  

  This.
  
  And not only is ~squeaky giving fair warning, but you have an additional 14 days to save those journals and their content. It's not like everything is being deleted right away.

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  • prefect

    5/13/11 08:06 pm (UTC)

    

    I can't access the journals of other people to save the content there, though. Which is my issue.

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    • vader

      5/13/11 08:58 pm (UTC)

      

      Actually... if we're talking community wise, then the journal and the stuff they posted is still there, or at least it should still be there. If we're talking about actual content in their own journal, well then that sucks.
      
      Unfortunately, ~squeaky has bigger problems to tend to than a few missed journal entries from roleplayers. He needs to make room for data, and for new users who might actually use the journals he's purging instead of sit on them like a 2 year old claiming a toy as theirs and theirs alone yet never playing with it. Yeah, it sucks. I'd hate to lose some of the stuff I've written over the years I've been here, but that's why I ran to go back up the things I remembered liking. And I did all of that ages ago.
      
      In the end, it's really no one else's fault but your own, for lack of a better way to say it. Sorry.

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      • prefect

        5/13/11 09:20 pm (UTC)

        

        Maybe it is no one else's fault but my own, but considering Squeaky supposedly listens to the users, especially taking into account that this purge is being done at user request, I'm a user and I'm expressing my displeasure with how things are being done. You disagree with me and that's fine. But I don't like how this purge is being handled.

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        • vader

          5/13/11 09:24 pm (UTC)

          

          Well, from what I understand, if the deletion and such just started yesterday then those journals that have been purged probably weren't done by ~squeaky and co. More likely that the user deleted them beforehand and they were recently purged. So it's possible that that isn't ~squeaky's fault at all.
          
          You're allowed to not like how it's being handled. I understand. It was a bit of a shock that there was actually going to be a purge on this wide scale, but if I remember correctly in my knowledge of IJ history, there was one a year or two back already. It just seems like a logical way to go if we want to clear up space.

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  • sparkings

    5/13/11 08:06 pm (UTC)

    

    I appreciate the warning, I really do. I understand why it has to be done and what the purpose of it is (lord knows I've stumbled upon a few sns that I desperately wanted but the journals were just sitting there empty and unused). I know that my frustration is namely borne from the fact that I went to look at a set of icons that I had found yesterday and today the journal has been deleted and purged. I didn't think of saving them because they didn't belong to me and I wasn't certain I was going to use them. I know that I can attempt to refind them in google cache, but it is the sort of thing that makes me a little irritated. I didn't make them, so I feel weird moving them to another place just on the off-chance that I'll want them.
    
    But that's just my two cents.

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    • squeaky

      5/13/11 08:15 pm (UTC)

      

      If they were deleted and purged, then it has nothing to do with this current process.

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    • vader

      5/13/11 08:59 pm (UTC)

      

      Ahh, I sincerely hate when that happens. I usually just blame the icon maker though. But if you can find them via Google cache, then you can probably access their photobucket or whatever image host site they use and get those icons? I've had to do that before.

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