LJ announces Facebook Connect

[charmian]

http://news.livejournal.com/129190.html

Most of the controversy is over the way comments on other people's locked posts can be posted to Twitter/Facebook, thus revealing the URL. So far, also, LJ is not really explaining if they intend to change any policies regarding this. (Also, the / character is broken in tags, but this was not intentional and is slated to be fixed).

Comments

[matgb]

Yup, definite use, but I'm not sure they actually were thinking.

And yes, account conversion is live, but it appears to direct you to a new account signup page, I din't go further than that today, I guess I should dig out an old OpenID account and see what happens.

If it allows you to continue logging in with OpenID for a full account, that could be a killer feature to attract FBers and similar who want more, but if it requires separate passwords then it won't be as effetive.

I'll try it after work tomorrow.

[charmian]

I'm not sure how openid for a full account would work... That would be interesting, though. I'm hardly logged into LJ these days so I didn't really bother to poke around much. It seems the backlash this time is really huge, also, which is why I'm so surprised it took LJ an entire day to make any kind of public statement.

[matgb]

It works the other way for FB, but needs a 2.0 compliant ID server, DW isn't on it yet, Fu's having some issues, so I haven't tested it.

Nice idea, especially when travelling, login to preferred site, tell the other sites to just check I'm logged in there, sorted. Could lead to some weird chains though.

5000+ comments, and all because LJ didn't think before doing something that's a net good if they fix the issues. I despair of that company, I really do.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

Did you conduct your conversion experiment yet? I'm trying to log in with an old openID that has a bunch of scattered comments but LJ is refusing to let me log in with it.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just got around to creating a throwaway openID account and testing the upgrade feature. Once you've chosen a username and password it is still possible to log in from the openID login page [http://community.livejournal.com/hjhtesting/1703.html]. All of the comments under the old external username are converted, and I forgot to check how the system handles LJ user tags.