Purging Suspended Accounts

[franky]

Hello LiveJournal!

I'm going to take a few moments to explain the plan behind LiveJournal's recent announcement to purge suspended accounts. I know the initial announcement was a couple of months ago, but I assure you we are still moving forward with this. In fact, we halted all account purging while we modified our worker scripts to handle

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[brion]

Wow. Thank you so much for this. This is going to be really great.

[hooves]

Agreed. :) Tempted to change my username.

[entropy_house]

This is the first I've heard of 'inactive' accounts being deleted. How is 'inactive' defined? Many people have made archives/diaries/ etc. (Including me) which haven't been added to for a long time, but we still want them. I'd be *quite* irked if an archive that took me months to set up vanishes.

I hope you'll explain that here, because the News posts are very difficult for me to find the actual news content.

From the news post

[daluci]

"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)."

Re: From the news post

[entropy_house]

Thanks.
This is another thing LJ promised never to do. *Drat* I had made some limited use journals whose deletion will leave horrible gaping blank spots in other journals. Plus several RPGing communities who lost impetus and were stopped, but still great fun to reread.

*sigh* I guess I'd better start looking at Dreamwidth again... I've been putting it off because I've got so much time invested in LJ, but if LJ is going to delete journals I want kept, I may not have much of an investment left...

[daluci]

For the limited-use journals, if you log in and put up a quick post they'll be fine for another while - or just swap their email to one you check regularly, then it won't matter.

Communities are a little rougher, yeah. And I don't blame you for the jump, I've been considering DW pretty heavily myself, for a grab bag of reasons.

[flag]

Thanks for getting on the ball! I was happily able to snag the deleted name I've been ogling for a while. :D

And further explanation in regards to "inactive" accounts will definitely be appreciated.

[uawildcatgrl]

I also would like to know what constitutes an "inactive" account. Could you please clarify.

[penk]

see above comment.

[uawildcatgrl]

Thank you.

[astronewt]

The news post that went up shortly after this entry did (http://news.livejournal.com/127507.html) gives the definition for inactivity. For personal accounts, it means the owner has not logged in for 24 consecutive months. For communities, it means no new entries have been posted for 24 consecutive months.

[daluci]

Oh, wow. This should turn out interesting.

Thanks for the post, that's really informative. I'm looking forward to seeing what the news post clarifies/adds to it.