Release #69

[marta]

Release #69 is now about done! For your muti-functional perusal today, we have some new integration with Facebook, Twitter, and OpenID along with the re-launch of Pingbacks!
Facebook Connect can be used like OpenID
Facebook users without a LiveJournal account can log in, comment, list friends, and join communities just like OpenID users:

Comments

[annella]

Please, please could you tell me why LJ is so desperate to link up with Facebook and Twitter? I cannot imagine any situation in which I want anything related to my LJ being posted to Facebook. They are completely different sites with different purposes - for the love of god, stop buying into the 'every social networking site must be linked so someone can post the same thing EVERYWHERE!' thing. If I wanted FB people to read my LJ, I'd send them to my LJ.

[hbpen]

I agree with you, but I have to realize that not everyone is like me. Some DO want them all connected. Why? I have no idea. But they do...

[nottygypsy]

True some do some don't PLEASE add a way to disable the link to FB and Twitter from any comments in our own Journal now.

[hbpen]

I'm just a regular LJ user like you. I have no power. LOL!

[hbpen]

What about posting/importing twitter posts to LJ?

[sewcute]

AMEN!! I want everything ELSE to come back HERE!!!!

[piperdox]

[annella]

A+ gif usage bb.

[piperdox]

:D

[openended]

Facebook connect?

Dislike.

[master_simon]

If this is your brilliant strategy to lure Facebook users over to LJ, or lure defectors back, think again. The people who use Facebook Connect to post to various sites on the internet choose to do that because they don't want to have multiple user accounts/logins throughout the Internet to keep track of. You might drive a little traffic from Facebook to LJ, but I doubt it'll be as much as you think.

P.S. I would like a way to prevent people from linking to my posts on Facebook without my permission. ASAFP.

P.P.S. Add "Like" buttons to posts and comments and Frank's a dead goat.

[hbpen]

"I would like a way to prevent people from linking to my posts on Facebook without my permission."

Already an easy way: "Friends Only"

[master_simon]

Nice that there's no intermediate step, and that you have to completely lock a post to outsiders to prevent it from being subject to content-aggregators. We have the option to exclude our public posts from bot searches, but this essentially circumvents it and forces people to lock the posts all over again.

[gerg]

How do you figure? If you don't want your post on Facebook, can't you just not tick the box that posts it to Facebook?