Channels will now expire after 40 days of not being used

A lot of us have noticed the one-time-use and registered channels with no users that have been abandoned, excluding X (channel services bot). We've recently considered how to also protect the resources of our Services while providing the least disruption or discomfort to our users; resulting in some changes coming very soon.

Channels will now expire after 40 days of no activity or use, as opposed to the 90 days that it takes for usernames to expire. This move will allow us to preserve X's resources for channels that are actually being used enough to warrant registration.

* NOTE: Channels dropped by X (channel services bot) due to no activity cannot be recovered by the Services Committee. The channels can be re-registered unless they have already been re-registered. (Staff will NOT intervene if another user has registered it while it was inactive, as this is considered a legal transfer)

Usernames will continue to expire after no use for 90 days. Since usernames bear very little on our resources, there is no current need to drop them any sooner, and we hope that users that aren't frequent users will have no trouble with their account in the future.

For more information or help: /join #Help on NationCHAT IRC Servers or via the WebChat Interface.

Enjoy NationCHAT!

Kind regards,
NationChat Team

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