Website/database question

[choof]

Re: Website/database question

This breaks thing.

>implying

[Velocity]

Re: Website/database question

>implying

I've deleted my account before to see what happens.

[leonid]

Re: Website/database question

Some people do come back after 2+ years of coma. Nuking inactive accounts like that wouldn't turn out good anyway.

[Izzy]

Re: Website/database question

8 years of inactivity then.

[Crazyjayde]

Re: Website/database question

If nuking means losing all trace of forum activity from that account then I'd strongly oppose. We're still fetching some data from way back as part of the Song Corrections project and some of those have been absolutely necessary.
But then if there's a way to have access to a backup it's fine.

[choof]

Re: Website/database question

I've deleted my account before to see what happens.

i meant implying that there isn't stuff on ffr that's broken regardless

[XelNya]

Re: Website/database question

I've deleted my account before to see what happens.

I guess the question is, IS there a way to nuke inactive accounts that doesn't break the site? Because I do agree it COULD end badly, but tbh one or five moaners is a fair price to pay for the memory space we (from what I can tell) need.

[Untimely Friction]

Re: Website/database question

I would fucking kill for the username Mikeh... I'd get this to legit vet and vetswap again probably...

On that note some accounts such as the one I just mentioned here have a last activity of 1969, as a result of the big ffr blackout, others will also have this making a purge risky business.. But I do also know this names been inactive for 10 years... AND I WANT IT

[Izzy]

Re: Website/database question

I'm pretty sure accounts with 10 years of inactivity are a safe bet for users not returning. There are also plenty of accounts with virtually zero data. No posts, no games played, no logins, nothing. If you could just delete all associations to those and make their ID's reference the same blank ID to try and prevent things from breaking it would probably clean some things up.

[Untimely Friction]

Re: Website/database question

I'm pretty sure accounts with 10 years of inactivity are a safe bet for users not returning. There are also plenty of accounts with virtually zero data. No posts, no games played, no logins, nothing. If you could just delete all associations to those and make their ID's reference the same blank ID to try and prevent things from breaking it would probably clean some things up.

With the downtime skewing some of those "Last visit" numbers as on that Mikeh account its kinda iffy though...