[russellw]

Good morning

We will be performing our regular purge of inactive users later today.

As we haven't performed this for awhile, it will take an extended period of time to remove the ~64,000 inactive users from the database during which the server performance will be considerably slower than normal.

Inactive users are defined as those who have no activity in the last 90 days.

The last time we ran this (Dec 2016) we removed 60k users many of whom have subsequently rejoined being only occasional visitors.

In total, we have had over 350k registrations since we started and purged about 80% of those along the way and we will again be left with a core of ~75k users - about twice as many as were left after the last purge.