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I am starting the process to purge old inactive accounts immediatly. We are defining inactive accounts as accounts who have not had any activity in the past 2 years.
In the first phase I am going to immediately set the status of any inactive accounts who are not validated to deleted. This will give the account owners a period of two weeks to log in and set the accounts back to active. Since these accounts are not validated we do not have a reliable email address to contact the account owner with.
The second part of the first phase will involve emailing any validated but inactive accounts and warning them that their accounts will be set to deleted status in two weeks.
The second phase will occur in two weeks. The first part will be when the deleted accounts are automatically purged and the second part will be to set the status of any inactive but validated accounts to deleted.
The third phase will take place two weeks after phase 2 when the phase 2 deleted accounts are automatically purged by the system.
We will NOT include Self-Committed[paid] or Permanently Insane accounts in the account purge.
What this means is that when an account is purged, it is immediately available for use by an existing account via the use of a rename token. Rename tokens are available in the InsaneJournal Store for $5. If you have any questions or concerns with this process, please raise them in the comments to this post.
In the first phase I am going to immediately set the status of any inactive accounts who are not validated to deleted. This will give the account owners a period of two weeks to log in and set the accounts back to active. Since these accounts are not validated we do not have a reliable email address to contact the account owner with.
The second part of the first phase will involve emailing any validated but inactive accounts and warning them that their accounts will be set to deleted status in two weeks.
The second phase will occur in two weeks. The first part will be when the deleted accounts are automatically purged and the second part will be to set the status of any inactive but validated accounts to deleted.
The third phase will take place two weeks after phase 2 when the phase 2 deleted accounts are automatically purged by the system.
We will NOT include Self-Committed[paid] or Permanently Insane accounts in the account purge.
What this means is that when an account is purged, it is immediately available for use by an existing account via the use of a rename token. Rename tokens are available in the InsaneJournal Store for $5. If you have any questions or concerns with this process, please raise them in the comments to this post.
by the way, 5 dollar rename tokens are love.
I'll delete some names, cause I'm guilty of having inactive accounts. :(
second, i have a feeling the answer to this will be no...but i was wondering if there might be a way to maybe reserve inactive usernames so that when they are purged we will be able to get them before someone else snags them up?
thanks so much for running a reliable site and keeping us constantly informed!
A PURGE. Wow, haven't seen one of those in forever and a day!
Once a journal is deleted can we request the rename token right away and just wait to see if the journal is reclaimed or do we definitely have to wait the 14 days until it's purged? Also, you say in the last two years.. and that's 2006, are you going all the way back to 2003? Because that's a year that one of the journals I want is from.
too bad the account name I want has only been abandoned for a year and a half... LOLNow I can just cross my fingers and hope that it will become purged. I mean, not like they ever used it or the 80+ other accounts they had.
Just a thought, perhaps a list like LJ of purged accounts?
InsaneJournal experienced an error sending out the passwords earlier today.
Your password may have been sent to approximatly 15 different email addresses.
We sincerly apologize for this. If your password was reset, the orginal email
address on the account can reset the password. This email only included inactive accounts
that doesnt make me feel really secure or anything, yeah you can change the password but some of us use the same password for several sites, not just one journaling site.