Livejournal Purge

[ceredwensirius]

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.

The part in bold was not there before.

Comments

[rj-lupins-kat.livejournal.com]

That is soooo not right. For many reasons, one of which you j ust listed.

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*

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

For those that have passed away the journals can be memorialized.

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.

[rj-lupins-kat.livejournal.com]

Hah. We're assuming some of us even remember the passwords to said journals... and with old e-mails. *sigh*

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.

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

What makes me the angriest is that reason for the purge is to free up user names? How fucking selfish is that?

[rj-lupins-kat.livejournal.com]

Seriously. If people can't create their own with a little ingenuity, then they've bigger problems to worry about.

*sigh*

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

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.

[rj-lupins-kat.livejournal.com]

Definitely better.