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heylove ([personal profile] heylove) wrote in [community profile] getting_started2010-01-04 06:46 am
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I've been looking some pages back and couldn't find anything resembling my question, so sorry if it's been asked before...

I'm moving here permanently from LJ and think about importing my entries. now my question is, if I import entries with comments, do the commenters (from LJ) get somehow notified about me having an account here on DW? Like OpenID or something? I'm not very good with such things... ^^ help is greatly appreciated. tia. :)
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[personal profile] raine 2010-01-04 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
No, there's not an automatic notification of those comments being moved or that you're moving the account. Most folks have been announcing moves themselves in their LJs.
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[personal profile] youngsoulrebel 2010-01-04 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
This is correct.

Also, I know you can set up your DW account to corss-post to LJ and set it so that people have to follow a link to your DW account to comment using their OpenID.

The way OpenID works is that it's pretty much automatically implemented as soon as you sign up with LJ, WordPress, TypePad, or certain other services. If you have an account with all of them, those are all your OpenIDs. So when comments get imported from LJ to DW, it imports them as OpenID comments to those LJ acounts, so people on LJ who aren't on DW (yet! :smile:) simply log in using theirname.livejournal.com and their LJ password. They can even upload an avatar on here, if they intend to comment regularly.

So yeah, announce it to your LJ, with or without continuing to x-post, and spread the word. :-)
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2010-01-04 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
If you don't want the comments, you can import the entries but not the comments.

When you do import comments and there's someone who commented who doesn't already have an OpenID account here, one is created on their behalf, but they don't get told it's been made; it just sits there until they decide to drop by and log in using OpenID (if they ever do).

Unless they've set up an email address on their OpenID account (which means coming over, logging in, and setting it up) they won't even get notified if someone replies to a comment they've left over here.
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[personal profile] red_trillium 2010-01-04 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't realise this either! Heh, my LJ friends who don't want to come to DW don't have an excuse to comment on my DW entries that I post here and point them to.