Is this issue resolved and cleanup deletions resumed?
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I think so, at least it should continue as before but with more checks.
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Hey Jammerdan, as Alexey mentioned above we have finished resolving that issue and we have resumed the deletes with more programatic checks in place and a revised process to ensure we don’t have another unfortunate mistake.
The amount of data we will be deleting going forward is only a fraction of the cleanup we did at the beginning of the year. It will also take longer to clean up this data because its mostly small files which takes longer for the system to remove even though the amount of GBs getting deleted is small.
The amount of data being stored on the global network has also continued to increase since the beginning of April (the graph I posted in the first message of this thread) roughly 15 to 20 percent. We are thrilled with the growth of our customers and the stability of the network; we will continue to do our best to gain new customers and growth the ones we have!
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well.. there will be another wave coming due to leaving customers. because of the decision to let them pay a minimum fee!
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If all customers paying less than 5$ leave, 5% of the data stored on the network will be deleted.
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So no new wave on the horizon 
There is always ongoing deletion of expired free trial and billing frozen accounts.
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I can only confirm one of them 
Europeans are very price sensitive. Seems like the new minimum payment was a great success there… 
I can confirm the account deletions. But this is not related to the minimum payment change. These were largely abuse accounts that were in the que for deletion long before the payment change was announced.
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So what is the goal? 50k accounts on EU1 by the end of the year?
The goal is to have only paid accounts not less than $5/month, obviously. Or at least paid with STORJ tokens.
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Yes, but still the customer base needs to grow. So how many customers shall be on EU1 by the end of the year and does Storj strategy fit to reach the target?
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I doubt they’ve stopped trying to attract new customers - for now it may be enough to ditch the unprofitable ones. I also doubt they’re going to post their private sales targets for Europe for all competitors to see 
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The goal was to remove some very old free trial accounts. There was a bug in the config that made it so that the free trial accounts didn’t continue the delete process after the free trial expired. That is now fixed and these old accounts will get deleted.
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These data shrinks are better for storagenodes, because in these hot summer days, data could expand and the pressure could severly damage the drives. So keep the deletes comming… 
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The important thing is not the quantity of accounts but the quality, a couple of the right ones are enough…
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My node still gets shrinking, but i want to believe to this project and will continue running node. I’m using the storage as customer myself as well, mostly becaude it’s decentralized. Otherwise - I’d use Backblaze myself.
With minimal 5$ introduced - our hope is that people would believe into decentralazation and ready to pay more IMHO.
P.S. maybe there are too many nodes? 
You can continue running node even if you don’t believe in the project. Receiving non-zero amount of money every month on your 10 minutes of time worth investment hardly requires belief.
Here are a few more:
- Storj never returned bad data to the customer. Backblaze did.
- unless you happen to live next to backblaze data center performance is crap. Even if your usecase allows pipelining — you only get ten megabit per thread.
- have you seen Backblaze software? There is no reason to believe that their backend is any better. I would not trust them with anything mildly important.
- storj never lied to customers and clients about accepting outside investments. Backblaze did.
So no, I would not say decentralization is the only reason to use storj. I would say there are absolutely no reason to backblaze. Ever. For anything, but short term data transfer needs.
Not maybe. Definitely. Just look at recent threads. Storj wants to implement collateral collection (which they call “staking” because it’s so Web 3.0), to shed some nodes that are not looking at long term engagement.
PS. Some may consider crapping on a third party company on a forum of their competitor is bad form — but I don’t care. I’m customer of both and this is my opinion based on personal experience.
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