The Mountain and the Tree

It 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.