Dreamwidth commenting problem
May. 4th, 2009 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mirrorshardIt has been brought to my attention that people couldn't comment using their Livejournal IDs on my last crosspost after all - the DW comment form has the option greyed out. (Also, I appear to have disabled anonymous posting. I didn't do that deliberately, and I can't find the option to turn it back on. Any ideas, anyone?)
Some research has shown me that the OpenID commenting process is actually a lot more crap and less transparent than I'd thought - Dreamwidth requires you to log in specifically with your OpenID (which LJ automatically gives you - you do this by clicking on the (OpenID?) below the Username/Password sign-in boxes, then putting your_lj_username.livejournal.com into the box, then confirming to LJ that it can confirm your identity to DW (requiring you to log into LJ if you haven't already), then set & confirm an email address for that OpenID despite having already done so on LJ.
As far as cross-site validation goes, it seems like an absurd kludge, so far. Frankly, you'd be better off creating a Dreamwidth account and only using it to read than doing OpenID there.
I have about half a dozen DW account codes to give away - comment with an email address to get one. Will screen comments so you don't expose your addresses to the entire internet.
Some research has shown me that the OpenID commenting process is actually a lot more crap and less transparent than I'd thought - Dreamwidth requires you to log in specifically with your OpenID (which LJ automatically gives you - you do this by clicking on the (OpenID?) below the Username/Password sign-in boxes, then putting your_lj_username.livejournal.com into the box, then confirming to LJ that it can confirm your identity to DW (requiring you to log into LJ if you haven't already), then set & confirm an email address for that OpenID despite having already done so on LJ.
As far as cross-site validation goes, it seems like an absurd kludge, so far. Frankly, you'd be better off creating a Dreamwidth account and only using it to read than doing OpenID there.
I have about half a dozen DW account codes to give away - comment with an email address to get one. Will screen comments so you don't expose your addresses to the entire internet.
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Date: 2009-05-04 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-04 05:46 pm (UTC)Disabling OpenID comments as anonymous ones seems... less so.
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Date: 2009-05-04 06:42 pm (UTC)Further investigation tells me that if an OpenID user has confirmed their email address and you disable anonymous comments by allowing only registered users to comment, the OpenID user should still be able to comment.
There are plans to create an OpenID security level in the future but it is not slated for active development at this time and there is not an estimated time of completion.
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:28 pm (UTC)