with not publicly available links to their games or with users who have not been very active on the site in a long period of time
could you at least try?
some of the projects that have been getting archived have had their devs post progress updates this month
some examples,
last post from dev - nine days ago
has made continual and constant updates
last post from dev - 25 days ago
last post from dev - february 11th.
that aside, i feel “not active for a long time” isnt that good of a metric.
some devs just dont work on their projects for a long time, some people lose passion and regain it later, others just have life get in the way for a bit.
arbitrarily archiving threads like this only says “its a bad idea to post here, we could decide to close your thread because you had an IRL emergency and couldnt post for a week”