Livejournal and the "inactive" purge.
ETA: Livejournal has added an essential edit to their news post about deleting inactive communities and journals: "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."
This probably means that you and your pup and the writing you have done is safe. Phew.
I'm preserving the original post under the following cut, just for posterity's sake.
Mods, I don't know if this is on anyone's radar right now, but I thought it was important to post something. Please just go ahead and delete this if you need to.
Here's the deal: Livejournal is planning to delete the content of inactive journals from the website. THIS INCLUDES COMMENTS.
Inactive means that an account has not been logged into for over 24 consecutive months.
Erised has been inactive for a very long time, but I would weep if I lost what I wrote here when I was younger. I know that I have a lot more RP journals that I haven't thought about in years that I have considered safe. That writing is no longer guaranteed to stay untouched. Think of all the threads you RP'd with your pups. Everything that we have all written together is important to keep.
LOG INTO YOUR JOURNALS AND UPDATE YOUR COMMUNITIES.
Forgotten username or password and email address:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=17
You might also want to check through your e-mail address to see if you've forgotten about a pup you've created. I know I forgot about at least two.
bookshop has more information, and this information below is a post going around to start making some noise. Keep a lookout for further information and potential petitions and form e-mails.
(Content originally posted by bookshop at A proposal.)
Regarding LJ's decision to delete inactive journals and all content associated with those journals, a massive user response may be appropriate. Because:
A) The issue isn't ultimately about inactive and active users. It's about what content is considered valid and who controls it.
LJ is removing User A's right to control and own the content they have created. LJ is saying that it can take what is essentially now temporary storage space away from User A at any time. And not just from User A, but all of their communities and comments--all of their content throughout the site, despite how many other still-active users that might affect.
If User A's right to own and control their own content is not seen as valid in and of itself, then there are, fundamentally, *no* rules at all about the permanence of content on Livejournal. None.
B) If fandom doesn't speak for itself, then LJ is obviously not going to speak for us. And in this instance maybe the most effective way fandom can speak is by not speaking at all.
So: if you're one of the people who does not want to see LJ delete journals, journal entries, comments, and community posts (including countless numbers of fic, fanart posts, and RPG community posts and comment threads), then:
I'm proposing Wednesday, July 21, as a Day of Silence. Midnight GMT to Midnight GMT. If you protest LJ's decision to silence inactive users, then go silent on Livejournal for a full day. Don't post, don't comment, don't send gifts or support their ads.
Fandom (and numerous other subcultures) has huge pockets of its community, history, and culture that *depend* on LJ's long-standing promise never to delete inactive content. LJ would be effectively silencing all of those huge areas of our communal space.
So: show them what it looks like when they silence us. Let's all shut up for a day.
__________
Also: please remember that if you all gobble up these new usernames that LJ unleashes, then you are financially rewarding LJ for destroying valuable fandom community spaces.
And giving Livejournal that much more incentive to destroy more fandom space in the future..
This probably means that you and your pup and the writing you have done is safe. Phew.
I'm preserving the original post under the following cut, just for posterity's sake.
Mods, I don't know if this is on anyone's radar right now, but I thought it was important to post something. Please just go ahead and delete this if you need to.
Here's the deal: Livejournal is planning to delete the content of inactive journals from the website. THIS INCLUDES COMMENTS.
Inactive means that an account has not been logged into for over 24 consecutive months.
Erised has been inactive for a very long time, but I would weep if I lost what I wrote here when I was younger. I know that I have a lot more RP journals that I haven't thought about in years that I have considered safe. That writing is no longer guaranteed to stay untouched. Think of all the threads you RP'd with your pups. Everything that we have all written together is important to keep.
LOG INTO YOUR JOURNALS AND UPDATE YOUR COMMUNITIES.
Forgotten username or password and email address:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=17
You might also want to check through your e-mail address to see if you've forgotten about a pup you've created. I know I forgot about at least two.
bookshop has more information, and this information below is a post going around to start making some noise. Keep a lookout for further information and potential petitions and form e-mails.
(Content originally posted by bookshop at A proposal.)
Regarding LJ's decision to delete inactive journals and all content associated with those journals, a massive user response may be appropriate. Because:
A) The issue isn't ultimately about inactive and active users. It's about what content is considered valid and who controls it.
LJ is removing User A's right to control and own the content they have created. LJ is saying that it can take what is essentially now temporary storage space away from User A at any time. And not just from User A, but all of their communities and comments--all of their content throughout the site, despite how many other still-active users that might affect.
If User A's right to own and control their own content is not seen as valid in and of itself, then there are, fundamentally, *no* rules at all about the permanence of content on Livejournal. None.
B) If fandom doesn't speak for itself, then LJ is obviously not going to speak for us. And in this instance maybe the most effective way fandom can speak is by not speaking at all.
So: if you're one of the people who does not want to see LJ delete journals, journal entries, comments, and community posts (including countless numbers of fic, fanart posts, and RPG community posts and comment threads), then:
I'm proposing Wednesday, July 21, as a Day of Silence. Midnight GMT to Midnight GMT. If you protest LJ's decision to silence inactive users, then go silent on Livejournal for a full day. Don't post, don't comment, don't send gifts or support their ads.
Fandom (and numerous other subcultures) has huge pockets of its community, history, and culture that *depend* on LJ's long-standing promise never to delete inactive content. LJ would be effectively silencing all of those huge areas of our communal space.
So: show them what it looks like when they silence us. Let's all shut up for a day.
__________
Also: please remember that if you all gobble up these new usernames that LJ unleashes, then you are financially rewarding LJ for destroying valuable fandom community spaces.
And giving Livejournal that much more incentive to destroy more fandom space in the future..