Comments | cmshaw: Crossing the streams: How to comment on other journal sites

cmshaw

Crossing the streams: How to comment on other journal sites

Jul 25, 2007 12:30

With people going off in every direction, here is something you can do if you don't want to start piling up accounts on every lj clone out there: use OpenID. For example, I used my cmshaw livejournal account to leave these comments on my insanejournal account just now. I'm just doing this for test purposes -- I'll be using my cmshaw insanejournal ( Read more... )

geeking out on lj, insane in the brain

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petronelle July 25 2007, 18:04:30 UTC

I really appreciate your efforts to make this transition easy for everyone. Thanks for putting in the time and making it understandable.

cmshaw July 25 2007, 18:32:45 UTC

Thank you! I'd say that I'm just doing my part, but the dirty secret is that this is kind of geeky fun. ;)

glossing July 25 2007, 18:38:56 UTC

This is *great* - I use OpenID for blog-commenting, but never bothered to explore it further. Thanks so much.

cmshaw July 25 2007, 22:43:24 UTC

You're welcome! I haven't used OpenID much myself -- is there anything I'm leaving out?

lostakasha July 25 2007, 20:01:33 UTC

glossing pointed me to this. It's a great help -- thanks so much!

cmshaw July 25 2007, 22:43:36 UTC

You're quite welcome!

angiepen July 26 2007, 22:27:34 UTC

[Here from metafandom. [wave]]

OK, this is cool. I poked around and posted some comments to your IJ post using OpenID -- never done that before so thanks for the opportunity. :)

Question -- how do you use an icon with an OpenID post? I tried a couple of times but didn't see an option for it. [squint]

Angie

cmshaw July 26 2007, 22:48:30 UTC

[Hi! *waves back*]

Once you're logged in with your OpenID account, you should be able to go to http://www.insanejournal.com/editpics.bml and upload an icon. (The link may not be obvious in insanejournal's navigation; I noticed it because cmshaw.insanejournal.com shows the nav strip and the nav strip has that link on the far left. Once you've uploaded at least one icon, there will be a link from your profile and the icon dropdown will also be enabled during commenting.)

angiepen July 26 2007, 23:06:32 UTC

Aha, sneaky! I didn't see any option for that once I'd logged in over there and I thought there'd be some way of linking to my LJ icons or something like that. OK, coolness -- thanks again. :D

Angie

_bettina_ July 27 2007, 18:01:56 UTC

I tried to comment on a story that was hosted on Wordpress using OpenID, but it wouldn't work for me. I assume it's because of the underscores in my username, because of that my LJ addy is not [username].livejournal.com, but users.livejournal.com/_bettina_
:-/

cmshaw July 27 2007, 18:33:58 UTC

Oh, I forgot about the underscores issue! Are you able to comment as "users.livejournal.com/_bettina_"?

_bettina_ July 27 2007, 18:43:31 UTC

Okay, I tried to comment over at your IJ and it worked. It didn't work when I tried it at the Wordpress journal. That's very weird.

cmshaw July 27 2007, 18:45:42 UTC

Weird! (Maybe WordPress and Livejournal/clones have slightly different implementations of OpenID...?) But thanks for letting me know what worked -- I'll add a note about underscores to the main post.

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