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There are many unused accounts in Micro.blog. Some people just didn’t get around to blogging, and some potential spammers who created accounts but couldn’t post. We plan to slowly delete these old accounts to make things faster for active users.

@manton - personally I see this as a really good idea. Particularly if it enhances speed fr the current community. Wondering how this sits with your declaration that:

This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.

I am presuming no posts = no blog = delete?

@JohnPhilpin Exactly. This first pass of unused accounts will only flag a portion of accounts that have no posts, no replies, and no active subscription. We’ll always keep hosting users who used to pay and have real posts. The cleanup will help because Micro.blog spends a lot of time in background work that gets bogged down as we’ve grown.

@JohnPhilpin yes, that seems to be the current practice. And it is quite gentle admin to improve overall capacity and speed.

Micro.blog commitment to archival integrity has preserved my stuff through “in again” “out again” use of the service, for which I am quite grateful.

@manton BIG FAN.