[info]mercurychaos in [info]07refugees

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. :)
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Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 at 06:14 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]lovebyelise

I'm confused. Then again I always am. I know what open ID is and I googled it. But I'm still confused.

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
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 07:49 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]dreamersunited

They can. :D They just have to add you using their open-ID account. :) (And if you want them to be able to comment--set it to enable commenting from everyone.)
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 08:03 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]dreamersunited

*goes off to make a tutorial--because she's just that helpful and every site has a different explanation for this. XD*
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 08:08 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]lovebyelise

Sweet! Thanks.
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 08:29 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]mercurychaos

Okay, your friends at LJ can read your posts using OpenID. I will explain.

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.
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 08:10 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]lovebyelise

Thanks bunches!
Posted on Jan. 7th, 2008 08:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply