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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_use
As always you can see what usernames are available here.
http://www.insanejournal.com/purged_use
Haha, I feel bad playing devil's advocate again, but yk it's nothing personal. :> The thing is, that aspect isn't really Squeak's prerogative? Whether or not the data is deemed as important enough to hang onto depends on the journal owners. If they get the email and can't be bothered to undelete their journals, then it's their choice and their responsibility -- then it evidently didn't mean enough to them, who are the main people it matters for, really. And if they've moved on from their email accounts and haven't set up email forwarding, then it's also their bad for not thinking ahead to preserve their possibly-precious data, not IJ's. A year and a half is quite a long time. Stuff can't just jangle around cluttering up the servers indefinitely.
(And I've already seen one girl on my flist return and be like "oh hi, just popping my head in because I got this slew of notifs, what's up guys?", so I know that it's not impossible. It might still happen for some of the journals you're bummed about!)
I know that you guys preferred LJ's method, but just voicing from the other camp: I actually think that LJ's purges were extremely inefficient, because accounts could go unused for like, 6 years but still never be cleared out because they had one entry going "hi testing". There are tons of pointless journals like that that no one cares about, but they're never caught in the purge, due to LJ's relaxed algorithm. IJ's might be operating on stricter guidelines, but it gets the job done and owners have the legit opportunity to undelete.
But! Different strokes for different people. I get that my ~reasoning~ probs won't sway any minds, but I just wanted to toss in these two cents (or two dollars, as it were). :D