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getting_started2009-05-04 12:01 pm
hatman) wrote in getting_started2009-05-04 12:01 pm
OpenID and Dreamwidth
So you've got a brand new Dreamwidth account. Congratulations! :) What do you do with your old OpenID account?
As has already been mentioned, don't delete it. It can cause problems with any comments you've posted (either using that OpenID or comments brought in by the importer).
But then you've got two accounts. And while there's a plan to someday allow you to claim that account with your primary DW account, there's no telling when that will actually be possible.
The best thing to do (if you don't mind linking your offsite account with your DW - some people would rather have a fresh start) is simply to put your DW name in your OpenID profile. (You'll need to log out of DW and then log back in with your OpenID, of course.) OpenID accounts can't have HTML in the profile, but you can post the URL as an inactive link. You can also list your DW URL as your website (the one active link you are allowed).
It's a simple thing, but it can help avoid some confusion, and make sure that your friends can find you when they come over.
Finally, in case you haven't already found it, there'sdreamchasers, a community set up to help people from LJ and other services find friends (old and new) on Dreamwidth.
As has already been mentioned, don't delete it. It can cause problems with any comments you've posted (either using that OpenID or comments brought in by the importer).
But then you've got two accounts. And while there's a plan to someday allow you to claim that account with your primary DW account, there's no telling when that will actually be possible.
The best thing to do (if you don't mind linking your offsite account with your DW - some people would rather have a fresh start) is simply to put your DW name in your OpenID profile. (You'll need to log out of DW and then log back in with your OpenID, of course.) OpenID accounts can't have HTML in the profile, but you can post the URL as an inactive link. You can also list your DW URL as your website (the one active link you are allowed).
It's a simple thing, but it can help avoid some confusion, and make sure that your friends can find you when they come over.
Finally, in case you haven't already found it, there's
dreamchasers, a community set up to help people from LJ and other services find friends (old and new) on Dreamwidth.
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BTW I have a question, maybe you know the answer:
Some people deleted their OpenID Account already. I have one listed under "Also Has Access From" but I can't delete the OpenID in "Manage your Circle." It says N/A under "Gives you access? Subscribes to you?"; I didn't click the boxes under "Give access? Subscribe?" what makes the OpenID vanish.
Do I have to ban the deleted OpenID user to "de-add / defriend) it?
If there is a post about it already that I didn't see, feel free just to point me out to that.
Thanks in advance :)
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I feel kind of dumb now for not reading up on stuff before I just ran head first into the new journal.
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Bleh.
I'll get this worked out eventually. I paid for my writing journal but I'm limping along with just a free account for my personal one.
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what are the problems, do you know? I don't want to associate my LJ openID with my DW accnt, so was planning to delete it because I didn't want it clogging up the system if I'm not using it. But I know that some of my LJ friends imported journals that I commented on (at livejournal, not here) so if it will cause serious problems I might not want to. I just thought if I deleted it, it would get a strike through the account name on the comments like a deleted accnt... is that not the case?
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Deleting your OpenID account means orphaning those comments. It means you won't have control over them (to be able to delete them, for example). And it can confuse the system. I'm not sure of the exact consequences (and I'm having trouble tracking down the various posts that explain them), but... it's better just to leave it there. It doesn't hurt anything to do so. It's not clogging up the system.
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