New release and update: Squeezing from stones, painting them, breaking them apart

[foxfirefey]

The Good first:

daveman692 is back at Six Apart! And he is doing really sexy things. You can read about opening the social graph. (Here, too--brad is doing work on it, as well.) Dave is well known for working on OpenID, and this kind of work will be really nice and empowering for users! XFN and hCard have already been added to LJ profiles

Comments

[elfwreck]

Looks like the only way for free users to login without ads is the secure server: https://www.livejournal.com/login.bml

[tallblue]

I wonder how long that will last???

[soph]

Or use LJLogin on Firefox, but obviously that's not always possible.

(btw, isn't it the only way for *anyone* to log in without ads, unless you're a Paid user logging out of a Paid account and then logging in from the logout screen?)

[matgb]

Anyone can log in and out using the navstrip that displays on my journal and friends page--I haven't been to the main site front or login pages except to look and see what the fuss is about for months.

And that's with me logging in and out regularly at conference and using 4 PCs as a base in the average week.

A 'perk' of a paid account now is a login box on your own journal, something that everyone had before now :-(

[elfwreck]

Paid/Perm users who set their nav strip to "Always show the navigation strip to anyone who views your journal or community" can use it to log in. (So can free users who visit those accounts, but they'd have to know who has it set that way, and they don't have the option of keeping that around if the journal owner changes his mind about the setting.)

I suppose another option is to comment on something in an ad-free journal and use that to log in. Hmm. Maybe I'll set up a "login here" post, kinda like those "comment to be added" posts on friends-only journals.