Spring Cleaning!

[so_hawkward]

Is it called spring cleaning if it's cleaning for spring? Anyway, I'm going to be going through the communities this evening and removing old accounts, so I apologize to your inboxes in advance. If I accidentally remove someone that's still being played, please let me know so I can add them back!

Livejournal News of the Argh: Friending Edition

[nookiepowered]

Hi, folks.

We spam the OOC comm interrupt your rare non-event weekend to bring you an unfortunately not so rare update on unhelpful Livejournal shenanigans.

Though this wasn't announced in any of the official release notes, we've discovered that the ability to add or remove friends via the admin console -- the heart of FH's friending-list system -- has recently been removed. (Those particular commands are now only available to LJ staff.)

vanillajello filed a support ticket to find out if it was intentional and/or permanent, and the answer we got back from staff was this: "Due to rampant abuse, it is no longer possible to add friends using the admin console. Though it causes an inconvenience for people that were using it legitimately, the level and frequency of the abuse was such that we had no choice but to disable it for everyone. I apologize for the inconvenience."

While it's not hard to see how the function could have been a gateway for crush-confessing spambots, and the number of people who used it the way FH does was probably pretty small, it is going to be an inconvenience for us as a game.

Until a more solid solution is found, unfortunately new character journals will need to be added to your friendslists manually. Not a huge deal for established journals who have most of the game friended already, but for the new characters themselves, who'll need to friend everyone, it's going to be a lot of clicking.

To make things as easy as we can for now, we've created a formatted version of the master friending list, where clicking on the link for each name will take you directly to the "Add this friend" page. It's under the cut, and we'll also add it to the main entry for the friending list that's linked from the FH profile.

( Master Friending List, The Clicky Version )