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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleted-1500-inactive-users-who-havent-been-seen-for-two-years-after-update/114995
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [14 april 2019 om 10:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleted-1500-inactive-users-who-havent-been-seen-for-two-years-after-update/114995 "2019-04-14T10:19:30Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [14 april 2019 om 23:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleted-1500-inactive-users-who-havent-been-seen-for-two-years-after-update/114995/36 "2019-04-14T23:00:21Z")

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

> [@allu](#):
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> at least prominently mentioning this in the release notes

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:

> [@Discourse 2.3.0.beta6 Release Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-3-0-beta6-release-notes/112839):
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> New features in 2.3.0.beta6 Add page for all group membership requests There’s also news regarding groups. Now we have a dedicated page to handle requests to join groups: User and group cards on mobile The ability to open user cards on mobile with a tap on the user avatar has been now implemented in the Discourse core. At the same time the theme component [Mobile user-cards](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deprecated-mobile-user-cards/105009) has been deprecated. Add every month / 6 months options to email digest The frequency with which…

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