To clarify, an inactive personal journal refers to any journal that has not been logged into for two consecutive years using any method of logging in, such as logging in while posting a comment, AND contains either no posts at all or only the LiveJournal welcome post.
So no-one who has actually *used* their LJ should ever be deleted as inactive. Although they may choose to delete their own journal themselves.
As far as I understand the situation it has always been the case that a name could be reused sufficiently long after an LJ account has been deleted, and this latest change just means there will be slightly more deleted accounts than previously. In other words the insecurity has always been there, you just hadn't realised before. Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't act on it if you think it's necessary.
If you can trust me not to delete my own LJ without informing you I've done so then you could continue to trust my openid. But I'll understand if you need a technical trust mechanism rather than a human one.
Generally where friends have moved to DW, especially where comments have moved here, I read them here rather the on LJ. It's been good that I haven't had to waste DW's namespace by getting an essentially empty account in order to do so. It would be sad if I end up having to do that, or miss out.
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So no-one who has actually *used* their LJ should ever be deleted as inactive. Although they may choose to delete their own journal themselves.
As far as I understand the situation it has always been the case that a name could be reused sufficiently long after an LJ account has been deleted, and this latest change just means there will be slightly more deleted accounts than previously. In other words the insecurity has always been there, you just hadn't realised before. Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't act on it if you think it's necessary.
If you can trust me not to delete my own LJ without informing you I've done so then you could continue to trust my openid. But I'll understand if you need a technical trust mechanism rather than a human one.
Generally where friends have moved to DW, especially where comments have moved here, I read them here rather the on LJ. It's been good that I haven't had to waste DW's namespace by getting an essentially empty account in order to do so. It would be sad if I end up having to do that, or miss out.