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Username Purge

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Username Purge

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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.
  • Well, I'd rather not have my journal deleted, since I still use it to comment on one or two friends' journals, but I did delete over 100 userpics (all but one of them), in case that helps with space-clearing so that dramatic delete-and-purges won't be needed in the future. I could do the same thing with my entries (they've been backed up), but I'm wondering how useful that would be. Does removing entries actually free up space, or just removing entire accounts? (Even if I did delete this account, I would just need to start up an OpenID account, so as to keep up with people here.)
    • you're safe and i'm sure your account isn't a problem. this isn't for people using their account rarely, it's for people sitting on usernames that have no intention of using them again at all, period. you use yours so you shouldn't feel guilty for having it and continuing to use it!
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