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

[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.