LJ Purging
For those of you who might not follow news or lj_maintenance, I thought I would share this development.
LJ is going (against past assurances) to start purging inactive journals. They'll send a warning email, but some people are concerned because old RPG/charity event communities may be lost. Some communities have no active maintainers/members, but people still enjoy reading them.
Worse yet, IMO, is what might happen to journals of the deceased. I know I kept all of my mom's online accounts opened, as I enjoy seeing her pictures and sites, but I don't often go in and check her emails. I know a lot of my friends have friends or family members who have passed on, but who were very active on LJ. Losing those journals has a great potential for heartbreak and healing set-backs. If you'd like to be sure that those journals are placed on "memorial" status and untouched by this new purging rule, the information on how to do that is here.
LJ is going (against past assurances) to start purging inactive journals. They'll send a warning email, but some people are concerned because old RPG/charity event communities may be lost. Some communities have no active maintainers/members, but people still enjoy reading them.
Worse yet, IMO, is what might happen to journals of the deceased. I know I kept all of my mom's online accounts opened, as I enjoy seeing her pictures and sites, but I don't often go in and check her emails. I know a lot of my friends have friends or family members who have passed on, but who were very active on LJ. Losing those journals has a great potential for heartbreak and healing set-backs. If you'd like to be sure that those journals are placed on "memorial" status and untouched by this new purging rule, the information on how to do that is here.