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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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• prefect

  5/13/11 09:17 pm (UTC)

  

  Trust me, I would not be bothering with commenting if I were just inconvenienced by having to reactivate my own journals. That's not my issue at all. I know it's a few mouse clicks and I'm cool with having to do so to free up usernames that are being squatted on. I am definitely willing to agree to disagree on the saving data, but I still think a little more warning would have been nice if he's not willing to make allowances for journals that have entries in them. That's my biggest issue. Because I'm not even at my own computer right now so I can't scramble to save stuff I really want to hang on to.

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  • book

    5/13/11 09:19 pm (UTC)

    

    Your concern makes more sense now that I understand what you're getting at, so I'm sorry if I was being a little aggressive. I agree that a warning ahead of time would have been good, if you think about data from other users you cannot save because the journal is already inaccessible.

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    • prefect

      5/13/11 09:23 pm (UTC)

      

      That's EXACTLY what I mean and I'm sorry I wasn't more clear on that before.

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      • book

        5/13/11 09:25 pm (UTC)

        

        It's perfectly fine, I took what you were saying as in regards to your own data, and so I had tunnel vision. I'm glad we could clarify it, because that concern is legitimate. Giving a heads up a few weeks in advanced would have helped in that case, absolutely.

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