I got this message. I strongly recommend you not to delete the team. You would be deleting a lot of our history. Lichess is not a blockchain. We won't be able to retrieve a lot of information about the community from Lichess once you delete it. The team itself is not hurting anyone. It shoudn't be a problem to keep it.
First, the team is gone.
Second, there is no history as we played no team matches.
Only the member list would have been from interest, everyone had 1 week time to save it.
But I have no intention to run after everyone separately and give them lots of messages to find out that they are not active anymore. And members who disabled the team messages are not worth to go after.
We should do some tournaments for team members only,
then they have to join the team if they are active :)
(I have messaged some of the old members, but without any response)
It's a shame. I often encourage people to understand that deleting things in our digital world leads to a loss, especially a loss of information and sometimes of capacities and it's worse when it's not reversible. That's something an average computer user usually doesn't appreciate. Lichess introduced teams in 2013. I don't know when the community team was created yet, but the use of #steemchess dates from October 2017. You could have possessed one of oldest Lichess teams that hosted chess events in connection with the blockchain, but now that is gone. Luckily we have references and records from our posts, but the capacity and the "badge", to put it that way, are gone. So, we can argue that we're basically "starting over" on Lichess.
Of course, you don't need to do that. It's actually inevitable to have inactive users all over the place. I can help you to find out the inactive Hive accounts and inactive Lichess accounts very easily. I'm not sure I understand what this has to do with deleting the team and creating a brand new one :S
For me deleting things online makes room for new things, we should have the right to forget and delete.
I agree. It's a lively debate these days, but it applies mostly to Big Tech and yet they will manage keep and abuse our data somehow. I think Lichess will keep that data, too, but for them. For us, it is gone, unless they open that part of the database somehow. But more importantly, it's the capacity, as I said. The team wasn't hurting anyone. It was not a burden or anything. So, we lost the capacity to use it and to hold a long-life Lichess team that had to do with the blockchain. The good thing is not everything is gone, of course. For the most part we have the links to the Swiss tournaments and hence the games and other info. Imagine how terrible it would be it that disappeared, too!
Also I think the argument for forgetting things is more adequate when it comes to bad things, failures and things like that, you know. I don't think our Lichess team was something unpleasant or a failure to forget it! :)