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

[deathjunke.livejournal.com]

I understand that but there are many like minded people out there if it makes one person uncomfortable i think it may make a few more people uncomfortable as well. what if
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

[ceredwensirius.livejournal.com]

I have to give this some more thought and my brain is really tired. This made more sense when everything was going away come August 1st, though I am still paranoid and don't trust livejournal.

Let me consider making a meta post that I will link to metafandom so that a discussion with fandom at large can happen. The possibility for backlash from fandom types that disagree and do so vehemently exists, I fear, and the last thing you'd want is for all of fandom to descend on you with knives. That never ends well.