LJ to "purge inactive accounts"

[Edmund Schweppe]

According to this LiveJournal news post, LJ is planning to start purging all content associated with "inactive" accounts (defined as no updates for 24 consecutive months) starting in late August. (Based on the comments, this is a significant change from the old LJ policy of leaving existing content intact even for inactive journals.)

That's not an immediate threat to any of the SU character LJs. However, Erik the Notaboy died in November of 2008, and Chaz stopped updating his old cvillette journal later that month, so there's some definite risk later this year towards at least part of the wonderful content that makes SU so much more than just great prose.

[Elizabeth Bear]

Hmm. I wonder how best to handle that....

[Jim T]

According to this LiveJournal news post, LJ is planning to start purging all content associated with "inactive" accounts (defined as no updates for 24 consecutive months

...for communities.  For user accounts, an account is inactive if it merely hasn't been logged into in 24 months.  (This might have changed from when you quoted it, but that's what's being said now.)

Apparently, one can also request that an account be changed to a memorial account, which will keep it from being marked as inactive.  After Googling around, looks like such accounts get marked with "This journal is a memorial. New entries cannot be posted to it." on top of the page.

[Elizabeth Bear]

I have a plan. Never fear.

[glinda_w]

I have a plan.

That doesn't surprise me.

Never fear.

Y'know, it isn't exactly reassuring when one of our PTBs says that...

[Alena]

I have a plan. Never fear.

OMG, zombie Erik.

[pling]

What it says in the LJ news post now (and I think it was edited to clarify) is that an inactive personal journal A) hasn't been logged into for 24 months and B) has only one entry.  I suspect all the SU ones are exempt based on B)?  But A) is also easy to fix if not

[txanne]

Fanwank: Hafs logged in to Erik's acct daily until she, er, couldn't anymore. Like picking at a scab. This made her easier prey for It.

[Edmund Schweppe]

What it says in the LJ news post now (and I think it was edited to clarify) is that an inactive personal journal A) hasn't been logged into for 24 months and B) has only one entry.  I suspect all the SU ones are exempt based on B)?  But A) is also easy to fix if not

Yep, that's definitely a change from when I originally posted. (There appears to have been more than a bit of a firestorm kicked up by the original definition.) And as you say, both Erik's journal and Chaz's original should be safe.

Back to our regularly scheduled Not Worrying ...

[Edmund Schweppe]

Fanwank: Hafs logged in to Erik's acct daily until she, er, couldn't anymore. Like picking at a scab. This made her easier prey for It.

Possible alternative solution: Chaz gets the password to Erik's account from Hafs and logs into it prior to November 2010.
Possible alternative alternative solution: Hafs returns to active, non-Idlewood duty prior to November 2010.

(The real "solution", of course, is LJ changing their announced policy.)

[eschatonic]

Keeping the cvillette LJ shouldn't be a problem. Chaz would notice the newsfeed, and if he's worried enough about it, he can log into his old account and leave a Do Not Erase Me entry, or ask that it be marked as a memorial. Which I suspect both of these choices will be pretty common and LJ management will be expecting a ton of them.