I have been wanting to post this for a while. Also I am growing tired of explain this to people on context of the Nether Road Map.

Unoccupied does not mean abandoned!

The nether road map has never shown abandoned portals and never will. Greyed out portals are unoccupied. This is now made even cleared by you needing to interact with a button that says "Show unoccupied portals".

Unoccupied means these towns might not have active players in them. This does not mean players have given up their land/property rights. These two posts today, talk of abandoned towns. I don't know any towns that are abandoned.

I myself own land and property in towns like Liberty, Populi, and Saga. I still own these property. I still visit them once in a while, and I still have possessions at them. Just because Saga and Populi are not active does not mean somebody can come and claim my stuff.

In short. Stop misusing the word abandoned. Instead thing twice and use the word unoccupied or phrase not active. Saying abandoned leads people to think they can claim what is not rightfully theirs.