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

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

I'm devastated about this! We're losing enough fanworks as it is when internet archives disappear or users decide to remove their work. But this wanton destruction is deliberate! The worst is that there are people cheering LJ on. BECAUSE THEY WANY SOME USERNAME THAT SOME HAS AND ISN"T ACTIVELY USING.

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.

[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*

[daytimetrauma.livejournal.com]

omg my heart just skipped.

I have so many bookmarked pages of my favorite fics and some of those journals have definitely not been updated in years. *sobs*

[ghostgum]

Damn, this sort of thing makes me mad. I know that LJ isn't solely made up of fandom-types, but you'd think that LJ would nevertheless understand how important fandom is – in a bloody economic sense, frankly – despite that. As someone who has a habit of getting into fandoms a long time after they were popular, the sheer loss of fanworks, in particular, really makes me sad. And kind of seriously pissed off. Not to mention the simple erasion of whole segments of fan/internet history, more or less.

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.

[deathjunke.livejournal.com]

O.O
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

[comicsbycate.livejournal.com]

Are you serious!?!

*cries*

Yeah, time to start using my dreamwidth account.

[ghostgum]

Have you seen the sudden edit?

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.

[epithalamium002.livejournal.com]

Just saw the edit. Does it mean, if a journal has more than one post, but has not been logged into for 2 years, it's not exactly inactive? I don't get it. D:

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.

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

No it wasn't! Hahaha... they had better stick to that too, because I will cry if some of my favorite journals are gone when they get done. *stares angrily at Frank*

[whitmans-kiss.livejournal.com]

I'll see how this plays out, but I may move to Dreamwidth or InsaneJournal myself if something wonky goes down because of this - I'm not as invested on LJ as I used to be, and I don't mind starting over again if I have to.

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.