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[arethinn]

My husband did a little interesting historical digging here. Apparently the last time a news post got up to 5000+ comments of RAGE was when LJ decided to abolish the Basic Account level - almost two and a half years ago.

6237 and counting...

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[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

and if one doesn't have an OpenID...?

[arethinn]

It's pretty easy to get one - Gmail is/can be turned into an OpenID, for instance. Before I had any DW accounts, I remember trying Yahoo and discovering it didn't work (something about non compatibility of the OpenID versions on the respective servers?), and finally using... um. Dang. Wasn't gmail. Actually I might have used my LJ account, oddly enough! Not sure. Anyway, it's not hard to obtain one. Although if you'd rather have a real DW account invite codes are easy to get, too (as I mentioned in some recent post).

[arethinn]

Although I should say, as dragonzuela mentioned, apparently I may have had settings such that OpenID can't comment. I thought "registered user" encompassed such credentials, but without test cases I wasn't sure.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

*misses the wild wild west days of 1997*


*feels old*

[arethinn]

Yeah - I was using my livejournal ID for open ID on Dreamwidth for a while. That's probably the simplest way.

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

Maybe this is worse than we thought? See this comment . Google translator verifies the users translation of the Russian page. We are not amused.

[arethinn]

Neither of those translations is so good. I'm not sure what this Svetlana Ivannikova person means when she says "LiveJournal has been and remains an open platform". I mean, it's open source, yes. But just because you can write code to link it to other sites doesn't necessarily mean you should. I totally get the desire for people to be able to post to LJ and have it crosspost to their FB or Twitter if they want to. I don't want to, but I see a want for that function for other people. But using FB as login credentials?