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

[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.