What does it mean to subscribe to an OpenID account?

[davidlevine]

OpenID accounts like davidlevine.livejournal.com offer Dreamwidth users the option to subscribe (by hovering over the OpenID icon or going to the account's profile page). However, subscribing doesn't seem to have any effect.

Similarly, an OpenID account can grant access to a Dreamwidth account. But since an OpenID account can't have a journal, I don't think this has any effect either.

Is this a not-yet-implemented feature? I can imagine that it would be very useful if a Dreamwidth user could subscribe to a LiveJournal user's OpenID account to include the RSS feed of that LJ user in their reading list, but this doesn't seem to be how it's working currently.

(By the way, how do I code a reference to an OpenID account so it's clickable and gets the OpenID icon? <user name="davidlevine.livejournal.com"> doesn't work.)

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[matgb]

What does it mean to subscribe to an OpenID account?

Nothing, I'm not sure if that's because at some point they'll be porting LJ content to your reading page or because they haven't disabled it for those accounts yet. It might be because they haven't decided.

Similarly, an OpenID account can grant access to a Dreamwidth account. But since an OpenID account can't have a journal, I don't think this has any effect either.

Correct, and I hope it gets fixed when they've time. Worth noting that the user experience logging in with OpenID here on DW is substantially better than on LJ, and that's before they've really started.

And yeah, you need to know the ext number, which is where the profile comes from.