Discourse deleted 1500 inactive users who haven't been seen for two years after update

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This topic is getting way too heated for my liking, I am putting this topic on freeze for a week.

  1. I am going to now update the old release notes with a very clear description of the feature that is prominent

  2. I am going to update our releases topic to ensure we call this out properly in the upcoming major release on the blog, I feel it is an important measure to default protect user data so it should be announced properly when we finally release 2.3

This change is good for 99.9% of the communities, the edge case 0.01% that use Discourse as an identity provider or some other obscure case have a clear workaround.

EDIT

(1) and (2) are now done, see:

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