So it is (still relatively close to) the beginning of a new year, and I was reading my RSS feeds on Google Reader, when I came upon a post that merited a reply—from LiveJournal. Well, it seems that OpenID users are still considered to be something of a second-class there, which is rather unfair. Among [...]

I posted an issue to LJ asking why OpenID commenting is broken. Specifically, I tried to leave a comment in one of my friends LiveJournals, and it said “you must be friended to leave a comment”—news flash, I am. In two LiveJournals. Where I can equally not post. They replied, pointing to a FAQ and [...]

Wow. This some humor. Dear LiveJournal, OpenID is not equal to anonymous. I am listed as a friend of the blog I wanted to comment in. Thus, the following error message does not make sense: “this user has disabled anonymous and non-friend posting. You may post here if (LiveJournal Username) lists you as a friend.” [...]

I am not sure if this is an attempt to get people to come back, or if they are legitimately having problems… but their OpenID consumer support broke just hours after they apologized for their actions in the whole mass-journal-and-community-deletion thing. So, if I have not readded you as a friend it is because it [...]

I’ve more-or-less completed moving; I have OpenID support up now, and so users of LJ and other blogging systems which support OpenID are able to login with their OpenID name. For example, my LiveJournal was “fd0man”, so my OpenID name would have been: fd0man.livejournal.com So, it’s just <user>.livejournal.com for LJ users. For other services, you [...]