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FriendList Monitor
Q: Why the 50 user limit?
A: Mainly to stop you indiscriminately adding the whole LJ world. This would create quite a load on LJFM and - worse - make us hammer LiveJournal more than is polite.
Q: Can it deal with communities?
A: No - for some reason LiveJournal's system doesn't report changes to community membership. We could screen-scrape these but I've chosen not to out of politeness.
General Questions
Q: Why did you make this?
A: I haven't the faintest idea. Because it's neat. And then a couple of people suggested opening it up for others to use and it kinda grew from there.
Q: Are you on LiveJournal?
A: yes
Q: Is there a community I can join to follow LJToys news & updates?
A: Yes - predictably it's known as ljtoys.
Q: I lost the paid accounts page. Where did it go?
A: here.
Other Tools
Q: Your version of my livejournal friends list seems out of date. Is this normal?
A: Probably. To avoid hammering LiveJournal's servers we only download your friends list if we haven't already done so in the last 24 hours. Otherwise LJToys uses a saved copy, which can get slightly out of date if you've altered your friendlist.
Readership Monitor (technical stuff)
Q: I don't have a paid livejournal account - can I still use the Readership monitor?
A: Hey, just pay for an LJ account already. But yes you can - look at embedding a web bug in each of your posts.
Q: Is there a neat way to make LJToys ignore my own hits to my mood icons? They really clutter up the readers page.
A: Yes but it's quite geeky one. Read this post.
Q: Most of my hits show up okay but one or two people never appear. I'm certain they are hitting my posts - what's wrong?
A: This occasionally happens. There's a number of possible causes - most often because they've set their browser not to load remote images, or because some firewall software is hiding the hit. Not much can be done about it.
Q: I'd like to change my LJ username. Will this break my LJToys account?
A: So long as you go through the readers setup page again for your new LJ account things should work just fine. Don't forget to update your LJ username on the settings page, too.
Q: I logged into my account for the first time in a week and can't see any hits. What gives?
A: LJToys doesn't record hits for free users who haven't logged in during the last few days. This is because there are a large number of 'dead' accounts on the system - people who've tried it out then left the icons setup and forgotten about them. Ignoring their stuff makes LJToys a lot more efficient.
Readership Monitor, the social stuff
Q: Is this a good thing?
A: Depends on your opinion. The important thing is LJToys works with data people's browsers supply whenever they visit a page. Data-gathering techniques like this are nothing new - should anyone feel their privacy threatened there are plenty of ways to circumvent it.
Q: I hate you! Make it stop watching me!
A: You can do this pretty easily yourself; just add the text 'ljt_ignoreme:x' to your browser's useragent string. There's a discussion of how to do it in FireFox on the ljtoys community.
Q: I hate you! Make it stop watching me! (2)
A: (real, straightforward answer) then don't load remote images in web pages. There's a lot of information online about how to do this.
Accounts
Q: I want to stop giving you money. How do I cancel the recurring subscription?
A: There's a hastily-assembled unsubscribe page here. For some really old accounts it doesn't work well; in that case login to PayPal and find the most recent payment. Click it, then the link to that sub's details page. On there you'll find an option to kill off the subscription.
Q: How can I delete my LJToys account for good?
A: Just turn off the emails and don't login to it anymore. You can pretend it's been deleted this way. Or try the delete link on your settings page :)
