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[arethinn]

Does anyone know what to provide as the identity URL to use one's Google account as an OpenID sign-in? Like arethinn.livejournal.com or arethinn.dreamwidth.org. Neither of the answers I've found (https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id or http://www.google.com/profiles/yournamehere - actually it's numeric form, https://profiles.google.com/105674350604747725373) seems to work. The former gives No claimed id: url_fetch_error: Error fetching URL: Internal Server Error and the latter No claimed id: no_identity_server: The provided URL doesn't declare its OpenID identity server.

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[samantha joy (from livejournal.com)]

OK, well, fuck, this time it took me to a page asking whether I'd allow LJ to "manage my contacts", which I (perhaps unwisely) allowed, and now I'm logged into LJ under my Google account and I feel kinda dirty. But I had to do a whole thing with validating via an email sent to me first; never did it ask me for a URL. OTOH it never asked me for a password either.

[arethinn]

now I'm logged into LJ under my Google account and I feel kinda dirty.

LOL. inorite? Not as dirty as you'd feel if you logged in with Facebook.

Sheesh, looking at the drop-down for "other user", I really had a blind spot for this. I mean, I bloody well knew you could log in with Facebook because I remember the brou-ha-ha when they implemented it, but I had no idea there were so many other options and that they had done it the way they did. (Although you can still pick openid and paste something in.)