Crossing the streams: How to comment on other journal sites

[cmshaw]

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

Comments

[yoiyami]

Hello! I found this post through del.icio.us (query: insanejournal +"open id").
Thank you very much for the instructions! I was also wondering if I could post the instructions section in my own journal along with a link back here and acknowledgment? Or would you prefer that I just forwarded people here? Thanks!

[cmshaw]

Hello! :)

You're more than welcome to spread this information however you think it'll be useful. I may come back and update this entry again if I find out more, but I think it's pretty well sorted by this point.

The only change I'd ask if you repost this information elsewhere is that you remove the link to my insanejournal; I'd rather keep that link coming from my own livejournal only.

I'm glad this was helpful to you!

[yoiyami]

Thank you! Here's the post.
http://yoiyami.livejournal.com/66106.html
Also, I would be very interested in learning how to syndicate, though it would be from IJ to LJ; however, it seems most of this is applicable to both sides?

[imaginarycircus]

Will this work if you are banned or blocked from LJ though? I'm still not sure how that part of TOSsing users works. Do they just prevent you from starting a new journal with the same email? The same IP?

[cmshaw]

If you're banned from LJ, you won't have a [user].livejournal.com OpenID to use on other sites, but you should be able to log in to livejournal with an OpenID from another site; I say "should" because I don't know how the permanent banning works, exactly. (I'm pretty sure it does work on email and doesn't work on IP address.)

[imaginarycircus]

I'm curious to see if it does work I should ask one of the TOSsed people over at GJ to see if they can get this to work.

[firiel44]

Thanks for this! I hope I don't have to abandon ship, but they aren't making it easy on us. Either way, it's nice to know that I can comment elsewhere without being obnoxiously anonymous.

[cmshaw]

You're quite welcome!

GreatestJournal

[emarkienna]

Thanks for the info!

Note that GreatestJournal unfortunately does not support OpenID ( http://www.greatestjournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=207 ), nor notification (a real shame I think, as that seems to be one of the more popular LJ alternatives).

DeadJournal does support OpenID, but not notification.

Re: GreatestJournal

[cmshaw]

Drat! Well, good to know that in advance -- thanks!

[quillaninc]

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know I've included this post in my roundup of useful journal information, post LJ drama, found here. Thanks for all your hard work on this.

-Quill ^_^

[cmshaw]

Thanks! I'm glad this is useful.