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Signal boosting some amazingly bad news (aka part 234611 of LJ Wants To Fuck You Over) via

Purging inactive accounts will take place...probably in late August. A journal is defined as inactive if it has not been logged into for 24 consecutive months. A community is defined as inactive if has not been updated for 24 consecutive months. Once an account is eligible to be purged for inactivity, the owner will be sent an email to alert them of the inactive status. The owner will then have two weeks to log into the journal or post to their community to prevent it from being deleted. If the owner does not log in or post, the account will be deleted and treated like any other deleted account (the owner will have 30 days to log in and undelete the account to prevent it from being purged).

In addition to every journal and comm inactive since mid 2008 being purged, all of the comments they've made on other journals and comms will be wiped. Every role playing account, every fic and fan art journal, every challenge comm, everything.

EDIT: LJ's posted a clarification (or is it a change? I need to do some poking around).

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.

EDIT 2:

cesperanza has some musings.

Original post at LJ News

Aja's first post, now with updates and additional info