hmm

[athene]

Nothing to see here, move along.

Comments

[catling42.livejournal.com]

i don't understand! hows it work? it wont work for me.

[georgedorn.livejournal.com]

It's a referrer trick. It snags the referral url you're coming from, which contains your username if you're viewing the entry via your friend's page. Of course, if you view the entry via someone else's friendspage, that will screw it up.

Anyway, it can see the page url the image is embedded in, and uses that info to generate a "who're the last x people who looked at me?" image.

Which takes a lot of processing when a kazillion LJ users suddenly adopt this meme. Which is why it's broken and doesn't work now.

[catling42.livejournal.com]

hm. i couldnt get it to show up any names. maybe no one reads mine.

[georgedorn.livejournal.com]

You have to actually post it in your journal to get it to work.

And even then, it might not work because I think the server is overloaded...

[catling42.livejournal.com]

I did post it, briefly, before all the images were question marks on everyone else's. But I couldn't see any names, just a blank white box.

[athene.livejournal.com]

it takes a while for names to show up. i think that 10 people or so have to see it before names show up.

[athene.livejournal.com]

my name showed up on yours before yours went away.

[catling42.livejournal.com]

mine showed up with names? i couldn't see them.