Dreamwidth and Livejournal OpenIDs

[cellio]

If you've ever commented in a journal (like mine) that's ever been imported to Dreamwidth, then Dreamwidth has a stub pseudo-account with your name on it, with a name of the form username.livejournal.com. This is, I presume, so that if you use your LiveJournal OpenID to log in to Dreamwidth, you'll be able to see protected entries and suchlike. If you have, or later create, a real Dreamwidth account, one from which you can post entries, you might want to reduce the clutter by merging the stub account into the real one. You can do that.

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For those reading this on LJ, yes I want to make that link at the bottom better, including modifying it to show how many comments are already present on DW. Figuring out the regular expression requires more caffeine. Or maybe somebody who's already done it will share. Anyway, this is a work in progress.

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[cellio]

Thanks. I guess I saw small monospaced text with punctuation and misinterpreted. In my own defense, I did mention the lack of caffeine. :-)

There are still some things I'd like to change on DW to make things a little easier for me to use, but I haven't figured them out and I'm not ready to dive into style customization. (There doesn't seem to be a way to "preview" style changes, so you have to make them and then undo them if you don't like them. That means I will proceed only in small steps, so it's not practical to explore a new base style, for instance. LJ had that problem too, of course, but there I ended up with something that worked a little better for me.)