After two years I did what is known around Livejournal as a "friends cut", which sounds very mean actually. I basically just went through all journals I friended and watched and removed those that haven't been updated in a year or have been officially closed, since their icons wouldn't show up on the friends list anyway. To make up for that I added ( Read more... )

If you had a quick look at this community's profile recently, you might have noticed that as of today we only have half of the icon journals left on our friends list. I did some major spring/summer cleaning and unfriended all icon journals that did not have a public icon post in 2008. Journals with no updates as well as locked journals won't show ( Read more... )

This community was originally created to serve Icon-Search.com, a directory for icon journal POSTS. It started out pretty well, but at some point we had to face the fact that it was a really idealistic idea, and even with all those motivated people helping out there was just NO WAY that we would have been able to archive all icon posts on LJ unless ( Read more... )