It has become common practice for larger sites to lock down or even delete an account that has not logged in for a period of six or more months.
I believe we should adopt this or some other method of cleaning up the user roster as it is full of bots and inactive users that have long since abandoned not having logged in since 2012 and 2013.
While I do not want to discourage a user from coming back to the profile I see no reason for the site to maintain updates such as birthdays and alerts for these inactive users that may still be parsing. Might even be other possible things that could lighten the site.
One solution because of the overhaul would be an automated message sent to the emails of the accounts truant a login for a certain period of time. Lets say six to ten months. The notifying email informing the user will have one month to log into their account before deactivation and archival of the username.
(Because our forums use a live scripting user count, deleting an account would screw things up bad converse to archiving the account)
Some sites do not even give the courtesy of a warning email and simply lock the accounts and make them unavailable for retrieval.
I believe we should adopt this or some other method of cleaning up the user roster as it is full of bots and inactive users that have long since abandoned not having logged in since 2012 and 2013.
While I do not want to discourage a user from coming back to the profile I see no reason for the site to maintain updates such as birthdays and alerts for these inactive users that may still be parsing. Might even be other possible things that could lighten the site.
One solution because of the overhaul would be an automated message sent to the emails of the accounts truant a login for a certain period of time. Lets say six to ten months. The notifying email informing the user will have one month to log into their account before deactivation and archival of the username.
(Because our forums use a live scripting user count, deleting an account would screw things up bad converse to archiving the account)
Some sites do not even give the courtesy of a warning email and simply lock the accounts and make them unavailable for retrieval.