Okay, hold on a second here.
Originally posted by svmadelyn at Okay, hold on a second here.
Uh, whoa, wait, wait.
Purging inactive accounts will take place...probably in late August. A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months. A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months. Once an account is eligible to be purged for inactivity, the owner will be sent an email to alert them of the inactive status. The owner will then have two weeks to log into the journal or post to their community to prevent it from being deleted. If the owner does not log in or post, the account will be deleted and treated like any other deleted account (the owner will have 30 days to log in and undelete the account to prevent it from being purged).
So someone needs to tell me that they are seriously not going to get rid of any one of the (sadly, many) left behind/abandoned fannish places that have years of memories and people's fic/art/projects, and people's lives. Because SURELY that is not what is HAPPENING HERE because that would be RIDICULOUS. What the everlasting...
More info: On bookshop's journal.
PS: If anyone tries to take iharthdarth from the world, I WILL END THEM.
ETA: Aja also points out in comments: OH AND SOMETHING ELSE I JUST REALIZED: they're deleting *all* posts by suspended/deleted users, including community posts. including posts they might have made to fanfic or other fandom communities.
....!!!! From the LJ maintenance post: This was not the only change put into the worker scripts; we also had to add logic that removed comments and community entries posted by accounts being purged.
Oh, hey, there goes your comments. The entire existence online, the entire history of a visitor, contributor to a place you love(d). Please god let that guy have just phrased that incredibly ineptly. Because...what? What?
ETA: LJ's reversed position on this one/edited their post to read: A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months and has only one post (i.e., the welcome post). A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months and has only one entry and no comments.
...that's still problematic as there's still content that stands to be lost, but. *rubs head*
Uh, whoa, wait, wait.
Purging inactive accounts will take place...probably in late August. A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months. A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months. Once an account is eligible to be purged for inactivity, the owner will be sent an email to alert them of the inactive status. The owner will then have two weeks to log into the journal or post to their community to prevent it from being deleted. If the owner does not log in or post, the account will be deleted and treated like any other deleted account (the owner will have 30 days to log in and undelete the account to prevent it from being purged).
So someone needs to tell me that they are seriously not going to get rid of any one of the (sadly, many) left behind/abandoned fannish places that have years of memories and people's fic/art/projects, and people's lives. Because SURELY that is not what is HAPPENING HERE because that would be RIDICULOUS. What the everlasting...
More info: On bookshop's journal.
PS: If anyone tries to take iharthdarth from the world, I WILL END THEM.
ETA: Aja also points out in comments: OH AND SOMETHING ELSE I JUST REALIZED: they're deleting *all* posts by suspended/deleted users, including community posts. including posts they might have made to fanfic or other fandom communities.
....!!!! From the LJ maintenance post: This was not the only change put into the worker scripts; we also had to add logic that removed comments and community entries posted by accounts being purged.
Oh, hey, there goes your comments. The entire existence online, the entire history of a visitor, contributor to a place you love(d). Please god let that guy have just phrased that incredibly ineptly. Because...what? What?
ETA: LJ's reversed position on this one/edited their post to read: A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months and has only one post (i.e., the welcome post). A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months and has only one entry and no comments.
...that's still problematic as there's still content that stands to be lost, but. *rubs head*