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Facebook connectivity for existing LJ accounts

Feb 08, 2011 20:47

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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 ( Read more... )

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damnitnicole February 9 2011, 06:46:07 UTC

This would be terrific.

I'm imagining it as working in a way that would allow things like the ability to crosspost locked entries from my LJ to FB, and/or maybe even to allow FB users I list as a friend to view my locked entries here on LJ.

I'm also thinking paid-only feature...

Thanks for your response... issokay February 9 2011, 07:27:21 UTC

Well I did pay for a permanent account, so I thought it would work, but it has not. :(

andy February 9 2011, 08:08:20 UTC

Security issues aside, right now actually have two accounts: one personal, and another one being an "identity" into which you can log in with your Facebook account. If you choose to bind your former account to your Facebook account, what should happen to the latter one?

fiddlingfrog February 9 2011, 08:17:24 UTC

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 should happen to the latter one?
Ideally, I'd say that any comments, friends, community memberships, etc... that the identity account made should be folded into the existing regular account, so that all those comments, etc... belonged to the regular account.
I imagine it'd probably be easier to abandon those comments, etc..., sever any connections to/from the identity account, and merely let the identity be used as a login device.

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Re: Over my head I think fiddlingfrog February 11 2011, 05:19:59 UTC

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 ( ... )