Connecting Journals

[bererjs]

Title
Connecting Journals

Short, concise description of the idea
Connecting more than one journal together, that you own.

Full description of the ideaMany of us make more than one journal, it could be personal and it could be fandom related or even a mod journal. However, wouldn't it be easier if those journals could be connected

Comments

[mordyn4]

But you'd only be truly logged in as one user at a time? Because otherwise I don't know how you'd figure out access permissions to locked content. Would comments work the same as posting?

It's interesting. Probably very complicated.

[bererjs]

The whole point of this is to have all the names under one acct. So, you only would have to switch names as you do with your pictures without needing to exit your journal.

[mordyn4]

Right, and I don't think making posts and comments this way would be that difficult.

But the other part function of logging into a site is access: a decision would have to be made regarding permissions. Say you're friends with someone as userB but not as userA, currently you wouldn't be able access that friend's locked posts unless you log out of the userA account and log in as userB. If that were to be changed, users would find it confusing to get comments on locked posts from accounts they didn't specifically "friend". Which option did you have in mind?

[bererjs]

You would be able to access it if you only switch names and by switching names you be able to access their private posts. As all your are doing when you want to read entries is switching names :D

Of course, it would need a lot of work as you notice it would take a lot of work to get it right.

[scien]

This firefox extension half solves your problem - it displays who you're logged in as in the status bar, and you can right click that to switch to a different account. I'm not sure how it works with multiple tabs in the same browser though.

I'm with mordyn4 that being effectively logged in to multiple accounts at the same time sounds pretty complicated. Like your example of posting to communities - what if the combination of 'post as [account]' and 'post to [community]' you select isn't valid, i.e. that account doesn't have posting rights to that community?