Public announcement thing

[winter]

One of those days, LiveJournal will learn to talk over their announcements before springing them on the populace. Today is not that day.

The revised wording in this announcement says that inactive accounts will be deleted and purged (all contents removed permanently, name available for renaming another account to the purged account's name), but only if they fulfill both the following criteria:

- no activity in the last 24 months (for personal journals - logging in, for communities - a new post)

- the journal or comm has only the one automatic welcome post

If you haven't created a journal lately, the automatic welcome post is Private and says something like "Welcome to LJ, here's how you can do stuff". No journals with any entry content will be deleted for inactivity.

So the only way RP journals are in danger is if you only used them for posting in an RP comm never even bothered to delete that first post and replace it with something like "This is account X for RP Y, move along". You may want to do that now.

I'm glad I was asleep for this kerfuffle...

Comments

[ripedecay.livejournal.com]

ILU very much right now. ♥

[winter]

Relief, isn't it? :) As a Support volunteer, I've typed this policy (No journal with any meaningful content deleted for inactivity, EVER) too many times to count.

[ripedecay.livejournal.com]

So much. Communities I care about are saved plus journals. I'm a happy girl. XD

[tokugawa.livejournal.com]

I have to thank you so much for this ♥

[winter]

Foot in mouth disease is better than actual stupidity, I think :)

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, anyone with a journal like this (RP, or otherwise only posted/commented in comms/other people's LJs) who has already left LJ will not get a chance to add new entries. So under the edited policy those will still be lost.

[winter]

As long as the journal is not deleted and purged, they can reset the password (if they forgot it), log in again and post a single line of .....

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there are also a lot of people who've moved on from LJ--they can't be reached, they've changed their e-mail address, whatever--who wouldn't log in again, but whose comments/posts would be missed by people who used to read/correspond with them.

Then again, it looks like there may be some further amendment that any account that has been used to leave comments/posts elsewhere would also be exempt from purging. There's been no official news announcement about this yet though, so until there is, I'm still going to be a bit uneasy about this.

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's still a major problem. I hope LJ figures out a way to delete the journal while leaving the comments behind.

[wottie.livejournal.com]

Oh, LJ. ♥ Thanks for the headsup, babe!

[winter]

The support hat comes in handy at times ;)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

The only reason they did the revision was because of the uproar the community raised, and the way people pointed out that content of a journal or community can still be currently valued even if the journal or community itself is dead. I don't think they realized that people do go back and read old journals for fun. They just figured the old stuff wouldn't be missed, and it was worth deleting it to free up a ton of usernames.

But at least they're capable of learning! That right there puts them miles ahead of 6A.

[winter]

Apparently that was the way it was in the code from the beginning. Just a case of bad technical writing ;)

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

I don't do RP on LJ, so had not thought about this problem.

Typical LJ snafu.