Facebook connectivity for existing LJ accounts

[issokay]

Title
Facebook connectivity for existing LJ accounts

Short, concise description of the idea
I would like to be able to use my Facebook credentials to sign into my existing LJ account.

Full description of the ideaI would like to use Facebook to log into my existing LiveJournal account. I have a permanent account, but when I try to log in using FB it

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Re: Over my head I think

[fiddlingfrog]

I'll try to explain a little better.

So Andy, back at release 69 when you added the ability for identity accounts to upgrade to a full account, a few of us in support discovered that if you upgraded an identity account to full status you could continue to use that identity to log in. Was that intentional?

What I'm asking about here is a feature that was added back last September: the ability to convert an identity account (that is, the account that is created when you log in with Facebook, Twitter, or an OpenID provider) into a full, regular, LiveJournal account. When you convert that identity account you have to pick a regular LJ username and provide a password, but some of us discovered that you can continue to use the identity login to sign into that regular account.

For instance, say I convert the Facebook account John Doe and choose the username jdoe. Normally to log into the jdoe account I'd provide that username and the password I chose. But since jdoe was converted from a Facebook-identity account, I can continue to log into it from the Facebook login page: http://www.livejournal.com/identity/login.bml?type=facebook

Ideally, I'd say...
Here I was describing two possible outcomes of the effect of merging an already-created identity account (like the one that got created when you logged in with Facebook) with your already-existing LJ account.

In the ideal method, any action that you had taken with that Facebook-identity account would get ascribed to your regular account. So if your John Doe facebook-identity account had commented to an entry, the comment would get fixed so that post-merger it woudl be credited to your regular account.

In a more likely scenario, Andy and the other devs might call a loss on any action that you had taken with that Facebook-identity account, possibly by ascribing them to a deleted account name. In that case that same hypothetical comment you made with your John Doe facebook-identity account would be changed to belong to nobody, or maybe it'd get deleted entirely.