User Guide
[MC] Sunset ages inactive members out of the community on a configurable schedule. Every evaluated member lives in one of five tiers (Active, Warned, Soft sunset, Hard sunset, Released), reached by a composite inactivity score and acted on by a pluggable Policies page. Anonymisation is reversible until a per-category retention window expires; username release is the only destructive step before hard delete, and it has its own confirmation gate.
The add-on ships disabled. Review the seeded Policies page and tier thresholds, then turn the evaluator on when the configuration looks right.
The rest of this guide walks through the tier model, the inactivity score, the Policies page, the five reactivation models, the snapshot and retention windows, the admin dashboards, and the full option, permission, and CLI reference.
Where things live
| Surface | Path |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | AdminCP > Users > Sunset > Dashboard |
| Policies | AdminCP > Users > Sunset > Policies |
| Reactivation requests | AdminCP > Users > Sunset > Reactivation requests |
| Audit log | AdminCP > Users > Sunset > Audit log |
| Per-user state | AdminCP > Users > (edit a user) > Actions > Sunset state |
| Options | AdminCP > Setup > Options > [MC] Sunset |
| User permissions | AdminCP > Groups & permissions > Permissions > General moderator permissions |
| Admin permissions | AdminCP > Admins > Admin permissions |
| Cron entries | AdminCP > Tools > Cron entries |
| Member warning opt-out | Account preferences > Privacy |
Versioning
Always back up the database before upgrading. Patch releases are bug fixes only and are safe to apply without a backup, though one is still recommended. Schema-bearing upgrades are called out in the release notes.
Related documentation
- Tiers covers the state machine and what happens at each tier.
- Policies covers the five built-in policies and how the Policies page wires them to tiers.
- Reactivation covers the five per-tier reactivation models.
- Snapshots and retention covers what is captured, what can be restored, and when each category is hard-deleted.
- Options overview lists every option, tab by tab.