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It's not exactly the same as when we were able to use the Admin Console for the Friending List but the amazing never_dull has brought us a holiday miracle all the same: mass-friending scripts for both Windows and Mac users!

If your journal is brand new to the friending list, you can go GO HERE, follow the updated instructions, and add all of the current game-related journals at once. (Up to LJ's 200-ish per day friending limit. To add the rest, just do the whole thing again at least 24 hours later.)

For everybody else, we have new characters to add, old ones to remove, a few to move around, and instructions on how to use one of the scripts to do that all at once!

Step 1: Copy the list behind the cut, paste it into the word processing program of your choice, and save it as a text file: whatever-you-want-to-call-it.txt

( Friending/Defriending December 2014 )

Step 2:

For Windows users: download this file. Some browsers will try to save it as a txt file, so after you've downloaded it, verify that it's named correctly by going to Control Panel -- Folder Options -- View, and unchecking "Hide extensions for known file types." If your filename is "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" then all is good. If it's "Add and Remove Friends.vbs.txt" then delete the .txt part.

For Mac users: download this file. (Make sure the filename is "Add and Remove Friends with Groups.app" )

Step 3: Double-click the file you just downloaded to run it.* The script will prompt you to choose the text file with your friending list in it, then it will ask for your journal name and password. (It won't save these or pass them on to anywhere but Livejournal.) Once that's done, it will add all of the friends on the list, up to Livejournal's daily limit, and when finished, will tell you which, if any, journals couldn't be added.

That's it, and poof, you're done!

[*If you're a Windows user and the file opens in Notepad instead of running, here's how to fix that: right-click on the "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" file and choose "Open With..." Check the box that says "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" then Browse to c:\windows\system32\wscript.exe and click Open, then OK. Now double-clicking the "Add and Remove Friends.vbs" file should run the script.]




As usual, if you have a question or you see anybody we need to add/shift/remove, let us know in the comments and we'll get that fixed up!

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 )