True, but there would be a way of checking out whether that domain exists and has an OpenID delegate defined, which would be an ideal medium term answer.
how high are the chances that they're going to comment on a locked post in the future
Well, obviously, non-existent, if they can't see it they can't comment.
But if you meant "how high are the odds that they might want to see a locked post, or that I may want to point them at one" then the odds are incredibly high.
My LJ is in the top 150 UK blogs across all categories. My fiance's is in the top 50. Both of us get huge numbers of readers from non-LJ sources. Many of those readers are friends or bloggers we'd like to share stuff with using the privacy functions.
If you can't give someone access to your journal before they've created an account on here, unless they chose to blog on here, then the whole 'add friends manually' thing seems incredibly pointless, what's it there for if it's not to allow access to people who've not yet created an account?
I want to be able to tell my friend Alix to go look at a locked post. She has a Wordpress and thus an OpenID. Why can't I just allow that OpenID access in the same way I can a DW account? I can go toa dW hosted blog and allow it access to whatever I like, but not allow a WP hosted blog the same level of access unless that person first faffs about for no benefit to them until I then allow them access after the fact.
Incredibly unintuitive and piss poor UI. Which is why I was so pleased to see those boxes, they make perfect sense.
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True, but there would be a way of checking out whether that domain exists and has an OpenID delegate defined, which would be an ideal medium term answer.
Well, obviously, non-existent, if they can't see it they can't comment.
But if you meant "how high are the odds that they might want to see a locked post, or that I may want to point them at one" then the odds are incredibly high.
My LJ is in the top 150 UK blogs across all categories. My fiance's is in the top 50. Both of us get huge numbers of readers from non-LJ sources. Many of those readers are friends or bloggers we'd like to share stuff with using the privacy functions.
If you can't give someone access to your journal before they've created an account on here, unless they chose to blog on here, then the whole 'add friends manually' thing seems incredibly pointless, what's it there for if it's not to allow access to people who've not yet created an account?
I want to be able to tell my friend Alix to go look at a locked post. She has a Wordpress and thus an OpenID. Why can't I just allow that OpenID access in the same way I can a DW account? I can go toa dW hosted blog and allow it access to whatever I like, but not allow a WP hosted blog the same level of access unless that person first faffs about for no benefit to them until I then allow them access after the fact.
Incredibly unintuitive and piss poor UI. Which is why I was so pleased to see those boxes, they make perfect sense.