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I have had issues with the way livejournal handles so many things, but none of them have made me want to leave livejournal for good. Until now. If a journal or community was not updated within the last 24 months, its gone. How much of fandom's history will be gone in one swoop? Think about all the journals that haven't been updated in years but they still have fic you love to read? There are literally too many for me to name.
I will not renew my paid account and take my business to dreamwidth and encourage others to do the same. Seriously, this is the last straw for me.
There was an edit apparently.
EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
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I will not renew my paid account and take my business to dreamwidth and encourage others to do the same. Seriously, this is the last straw for me.
There was an edit apparently.
EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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But moving to Dreamwidth does nothing for the issue of how to save the fics and art in journals whose owners can't be reached.
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That user name selfishness just makes my blood boil. I don't have the user name I originally wanted but for fucks sake. Is it really that goddam important?
I know it doesn't, but what else can I do? If they go through with this, I can't support them.
Thank god for AO3 and as much as I hate to say it, fanfiction.net. I need to get all of my stuff in both places.
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I hope they consider intellectual property rights before they do this, or if they don't they get sued.
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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Another is that sometimes you keep an old journal - you're not going to update it, but it is a piece of your new/current journal and you don't want to lose it, either. Plus, those who have sadly passed away, their journals are kept up for people to read in their memory; no one is going to desicrate them by 'updating' them, but they should be allowed to stay.
LJ needs some reminders as to why people would stay here instead of escaping to Facebook. *sigh*
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I think that you don't have to update an old journal, you just have to log into it. I am also worried about code glitches.
LJ does need some reminders. It is hard to believe that with as much as fandom uses LJ, LJ still doesn't seem to get it.
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Still, I don't like the whole 'it's old, let's purge it' deal. There are other, more practical reasons why that's not a good idea for the powers that be.
And fandoms? Oh, yeah. Big time. I don't post any of my work to other blog-based sites, just one or two fanfic only sites.
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*sigh*
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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I have so many bookmarked pages of my favorite fics and some of those journals have definitely not been updated in years. *sobs*
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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Frankly, I had already decided, some time ago, that I wouldn't be renewing my paid account here, when it comes due, and that I would move permanently to DW instead. This kind of thing? Just reminds me why.
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The loss is just staggering. I mean, I don't even know where to begin. I feel like I ought to run around and save everything but its not my work.
Which brings up another interesting point and that is copywrite. Does LJ have the legal right to remove someone else's content?
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This. Exactly, this. I wouldn't even know where to begin, if I wanted to try and scurry around and save things I have bookmarked; and that would be if I even felt I had the right to, you know? It's an impossible situation.
Made worse by their rationale for doing it in the first place. And don't even get me started on the folks who think it's a good idea. D:
As to the copyright issue, that is a damn can of worms at the best of times, grr.
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Really? no way! *frets* I have to go and start archiving thing! this is insane! I guess i'll have to start using my dream width account. *sigh* thanks for the heads up
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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okay here's the com http://community.livejournal.com/hpfandomarchive/
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goodnight sweet dreams ^^
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I'm so paranoid about all this that I ljarchived
Anyway, so those are my thoughts. I'm not comfortable with reposting another persons work and I won't tell you not to, but I can't help you pimp either. I'm just not comfortable. I've had my work reposted without permission and it was really awful not to have control over something I had created.
If reposting wasn't the plan though I'd love to hear more and would be glad to lend whatever support I can.
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If you don't feel that this is okay then I'll take the com down. The last thing I want to do is make people upset or uncomfortable.
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Sweetie, don't take the comm down on my account. If this is something you want to do, then do it. I'm not chastising you or judging you in anyway.
I really don't have that many thinky thoughts on intellectual property rights. I'm just kinda offering my thoughts and thinking my way through this with you.
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The completed archived entries are saved in the community's email and then people can request what they want to be emailed to them.
For example: A certain day could be picked to fulfill requests like for example all tof the weeks request can be filled on Thursdays. so who ever made a request in a comment to the community or the email (which ever is more convenient) during the week would receive an email with the pdf on Thursday.
btw you're a great sounding board
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Let me consider making a meta post that I will link to
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*cries*
Yeah, time to start using my dreamwidth account.
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
The part in bold was not there before.
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EDIT: Purging inactive accounts: One of the benefits of the work we've done to purge suspended accounts is that we will now be able to purge inactive journals and communities too--something you've been requesting for years! 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.
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I copy some of the fics I like and store them in my hard drive, but it's still a good experience seeing them where they were originally posted. Aside from the fics themselves, the comments are fun to read too, actually. idk.
As for the usernames that they can 'free' up for other people, uhm, you still have to pay 15 dollars for a username that's been used by someone else before. It's all a matter of money.
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I think this boils down to money too. Because LJ wants to sell the user names that people want. And they can't if those user names are taken by someone who is inactive.
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I'm pissed off. This doesn't affect my personal journals, but I am just shocked at all the potential loss of fanworks.
What about journals whose only purpose was to post comments, like RP puppet journals, and thus have no entries? Those journals and comments will be gone. I mean, come on.
And the code bugs frighten me as well.
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I was livid last night. I'm glad they are back tracking but that only happened after users started quoting copywrite law and basically rioted on the news post.
Some of them equated it with book burning.
Yeah, the way it affects RP journals is awful and I think those are still in danger if there is no content on them at all.
Yeah, me too. Glitches happen all the time and one in this initiative could be disastrous.