I agree with the sentiment. But, it's likely they want to quietly start over or not want to upset people? I dunno.

I would say if you’re planning on deactivating your account. You should make a journal saying that this account will be deactivated in a few days. So watchers get the heads up!

Exactly.

I would do that if I was dying or done with this site!

I think I saw the journal in question. I was confused that I couldn't click it, I thought maybe I was blocked or something.

Nope, if it's the same one I'm talking about, it's because their account is disabled.

As frustrating and inconvenient as it is, at least the sorts of people you're talking about actually put in the effort to announce their departure AT ALL.

I know someone who had thousands of followers who just up and left FA without warning. He later returned with a new account but never bothered to explain let alone apologise for the abrupt departure (he did explain in the 'shouts' section when I asked him about it, still didn't apologise). It'd be great if artists in those positions weren't acting like they still have fewer than 5 followers (or worse, act like they're royalty), because that account deletion (not takedown, deletion) was that sudden and abrupt that people were messaging me about it as if it were a big deal. It's like the saying "with great power comes great responsibility" just went out the window.

But yeah, it's a good idea that people give proper notice (IMO at least a month with the occasional reminder) about when they're leaving and know that they're talking to an audience and not some work boss (unless it's all just a case of certain artists having main character syndrome, after all it isn't hard to be funnelled into gaining a sense of entitlement when you're indie). I once took down a popular journal but gave 3 months notice to account even for those who don't go online very often... and yet I still had people asking where the journal went even after that. Any notice (at least the sort people can see) is better than none.

I'm just trying to let people know that if you're about to deactivate, nobody will see your journal that may be to announce your departure, giving context, or even linking to possible new accounts/sites.

If I may interject I believe I know who this is regarding. SolarStar fox tends to do this a lot. Because they have a lot mental health problems. I'm assuming he's very unstable to the point where it needs to leave and come back refreshed again..Not only that he's done it multiple times now. Favorites work, comments on posts then ends up disabling his account afterwards. I'm not sure what's wrong with him but I hope he's okay.

I'm not sure who that is, unless it's an alt of the person I saw deactivate yesterday. But I sincerely hope they can get their issues sorted out and managed. Bad mental health stuff really sucks and I wish them the best.

I see who you were entailing this too now. It was Bippy. They've deactivated their account. I think they said in the past they're dealing with a lot of metal problems in previous journals and they might be moving on from the ABDL/babyfur community because of the rep it's gave them.

I wasn't gonna say who it was, but yeah. And I do remember some of the previous journals.
And just to clarify, this isn't a journal written out of anger, I'm just hoping this info catches on and more people know.