OpenID Notifications.
A little while ago someone mentioned in a comment on LJ (can't remember who or where it was) that one of the disadvantages of using OpenID was that you don't get comment notifications.
I'm not sure if anyone here had the same idea, but it's wrong. All you have to do is go to your "edit profile" page (after logging into LJ with OpenID), scroll down to "Contact Info", and put in the e-mail that you want notifications sent to. You'll get an e-mail shortly after asking you to verify it, and then it'll work just as if you had an account there... except you don't.
I've been using my OpenID account for a while to read my friends' journals on LJ, and it's been working pretty well for me. In fact yesterday I finally decided to delete my LJ and so far I don't feel like reactivating it.
So if you know anyone who's still waffling between making a permanent move here because all their friends are still at LJ, then you should tell them about this... OpenID is like methadone. :)
I'm not sure if anyone here had the same idea, but it's wrong. All you have to do is go to your "edit profile" page (after logging into LJ with OpenID), scroll down to "Contact Info", and put in the e-mail that you want notifications sent to. You'll get an e-mail shortly after asking you to verify it, and then it'll work just as if you had an account there... except you don't.
I've been using my OpenID account for a while to read my friends' journals on LJ, and it's been working pretty well for me. In fact yesterday I finally decided to delete my LJ and so far I don't feel like reactivating it.
So if you know anyone who's still waffling between making a permanent move here because all their friends are still at LJ, then you should tell them about this... OpenID is like methadone. :)
tuimelgeest
This looks very interesting, partly for myself, partly for my LJ friends who might like to read my shiny new IJ.
Do you know if it works from LJ to IJ too?
mercurychaos
tuimelgeest
Thanks for mentioning the anonymous commenting. I never bothered disabling that since pretty much all of my posts are FO anyway, but it's always good to know such things.
catwoman69y2k
mirabile_dictu
lovebyelise
I have friends at LJ that want to read my friends only posts here, how can I let them do that if they're not on my friends list? Or is that not possible?
Or did I entirely miss the point of this post? Haha
dreamersunited
dreamersunited
lovebyelise
mercurychaos
First, they have to sign into IJ using OpenID... just click where it says "OpenID" at the top.
Then they have to make a comment on any public post in your journal... as long as you have at least one public post that has anonymous commenting enabled they'll ba able to do this.
Then when you get their comment, click on the little orange swirly logo to the left of their username... that'll take you to their OpenID profile on IJ. All you have to do then is click the little "+" box that you click on to friend people, and they'll be able to read all your f-locked posts.
If you want to read their posts on LJ, it works the same way, but in reverse.
lovebyelise
ex_alchemy547
Also, someone was jokng with brad about selling OpenID to the Kremlin. As much as it was a joke on both sides, I really have to wonder how secure I would be if he did sell it to SUP.
branchandroot
sherlock
egyptian_moon
You also get to have six free icons. Something I have found to be rather fun!
dixprincesse