Reclaiming usernames policy: manton.org

@manton Wondering if this means ‘host and publish’ or just ‘hold the data’? : “we will host your blog indefinitely”. What’s to stop someone from paying you for a bit and then just stop paying any more since their blog is still ‘live’? Not planning on doing that 😀 just feel you need to be earning against your expenses…

@manton Looks like a good policy though.

@Miraz Thanks. Publishing is disabled after cancelling. If someone tried to game the system by stopping and starting their subscription often, I think that would be really annoying for them, and that means they probably aren’t really using the product very often either. Good point, though.

@manton I wouldnt mind getting @lucien. looks like its been dormant since 2017. 🙂

@manton On front page of Hacker News right now, nice.

@youens Cool!

@manton Have you considered a procedure to freeze an account, so it can’t be changed? I’m thinking of people who want to let their blog(s) be permanent after they are no longer able to add to it for whatever reason, IOW, they want it to be a memorial if that happens. Sorry for my possibly poor wording.

@manton I really like the thought of not just erasing things of the web. Thanks for providing that!

@manton this looks like a good policy. I’d love to get hold of @phil. It looks like it’s been dormant for a very long time.

@manton This looks good; definitely makes sense in the greater context of Micro.blog as a platform.

There are a number of people who posted just once with “Hello World” and the like; are those accounts likely to be considered as unique situations?

@manton I like this, it’s fair and makes sense.

@renevanbelzen Yes, that is part of what I had in mind. Although I’m not sure if there needs to be a special “freeze” state or if just letting it effectively sit frozen is enough.

@manton I think this is a great policy, but it brought up a question for me. I started Micro.Blog with a different username and then changed to my current username. I’ve assumed that the old username is available to anyone now. (And I think it should be…) But after reading this, maybe not?

@bobwertz If you renamed your username, the old username will be available right away for someone else. If you created a new account, though, the old username would still be reserved until you deleted it.