User blog comment:VicGeorge2K9/Necessary purge/@comment-25762071-20171224013941/@comment-1323688-20171224074544

Defunct means that the fanfiction author has totally abandoned the work, leaving the series as a dead fic, and has most if not all of its pages removed. It's a tricky one to determine, as there are fanfiction series that are still in progress, though its authors have taken sabbaticals from them or have other real-life issues going on that prevent them from continuing on them at present.