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2009-03-05 17:34
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1676
Cleaning up in inactive accounts

A thing that has been on the todo-list for a looong time.

Automatically closing accounts that havn't been used for some time. (Currently set to 6 months)
Users will of cause recieve a warning mail before their account is closed, so please make sure that your E-mail in your account is a working one.

There are several reasons for cleaning up in these inactive accounts:
Open up locking entries maintained by users who isn't here, so that they can be updated by others.
Reducing the chance to PM users who dosn't come back to read them.
Cleaning up in potential double registrations.
Giving a more clear picture of how many users actually are on CSDb.
...

This new thing won't matter for most of you regular users, but you should make sure that your E-mail in your account is a working E-mail - just in case. :)
2009-03-05 20:28
Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 1335
does it work 100% correctly? my teammate - volcano / exon - logged in during last 5 months and nonetheless he got a warning message. at least he claims so :P
2009-03-05 20:36
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3048
Perff: finally one of the moderator's dream comes true ;-) Applause ;-)
2009-03-05 20:44
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1676
Quote:
does it work 100% correctly? my teammate - volcano / exon - logged in during last 5 months and nonetheless he got a warning message. at least he claims so :P

Just checked. According to the logs, he last logged in aprox 5.5 months ago, so either he remembers wrong, got another account, or somehow managed to log into CSDb without it getting logged. (bug??) ;)
2009-03-05 21:43
Jazzcat

Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044
Nice work. A pity email addresses for some people change frequently otherwise purging is possibly avoided in some cases.
2009-03-05 21:58
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1676
Yes, someone will never get the warning mail, but that just how it is.
Out of 3000 warning mails sent this evening, I got a little less than 100 bounces so far.
On the other hand almost 300 users have got the mail, and loged in tonight - and it's only 4 hours since the mails was sent out. :)
2009-03-05 22:03
Intruder
Account closed

Registered: May 2003
Posts: 4
Perff

Wooow this website still exist? Thanks for the friendly email reminder ;-). I had completely forgot to came around here for a loooooong time... Well according to my private inbox it probably since 2005 ouuuch. I just replied to all the people that sent me a message hehehe.

Thanks again, now ill add the address to my bookmark.

Damn I am quite lucky that I still use that old email address with my internet provider, if not I would have been purge 8-(.
2009-03-06 07:26
Mace

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799
Ah, so that's why it was so freakin' busy last night :-)
2009-03-06 11:25
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11352
\o/ finally \o/

will be interisting to see how the number of accounts develops now :)
2009-03-06 13:22
Perff
Administrator

Posts: 1676
We will se in 30 days - that is the first time the automatic script will close accounts.

Right now the stat-box says about 4200 accounts.
Yesterday only 1000 of those were "active".
Now 1450 accounts are "active", and the number is still rising.. :)
2009-03-06 13:52
jailbird

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1578
Not so happy about this. Could I get some kind of an immunity? I promise I wont disappear for good. But, I was just away from CSDb (and wasn't checking my personal email account too frequently either) for long, and I might fall into the same situation again, any time, even for a much longer period than 6 months. So at least allow us to reactivate the account once it's deleted (I'd never thought I'll bring up Facebook as a good example, but you get the idea, right?)
 
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