Dreamwidth accounts vs. LJ OpenID accounts: check your subscription and access lists

[cellio]

A lot of us now have OpenID accounts at Dreamwidth, which means we can log in to Dreamwidth using a Livejournal credential. This allows a Dreamwidth user to give a Livejournal user access to locked posts. These IDs are of the form "name.livejournal.com". For example, here is mine.

A lot of us also have native Dreamwidth accounts, which we log into with our Dreamwidth passwords and use to post entries. For example, here is mine.

These are not the same account.

That means that if you've granted access to "somebody.livejournal.com" (OpenID), but haven't granted access to "somebody" (Dreamwidth account), then "somebody" while logged in on Dreamwidth won't see your locked posts. Similarly, if you've subscribed to "somebody.livejournal.com", that doesn't mean you're going to see "somebody"'s posts in your feed. So if you want to read and grant access to your migrating LJ friends on Dreamwidth, you need to match up the accounts.

Currently, 32 people have granted access to "cellio.livejournal.com". Most of them have not granted access to "cellio", which means I won't see those posts. Maybe that's intentional (hey, intentions change; I'm not offended), but maybe it's unintentional.

I have two requests of my LJ friends:

1. If we're not connected there, and assuming you want to be, please add my Dreamwidth account to whatever lists you think appropriate. When I see email about new subscriptions/access, I check to make sure I've done the same. (If I've somehow missed you, please let me know. If I subscribed to you on LJ I want to do so on DW too.)

2. If you are not planning to use your LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth, because you have a native account and will be reading that way, please let me know so I can remove your LJ account from my access lists. This isn't about not trusting you; this is about being able to manage my filters more easily -- if you're not using it anyway, I'd rather not be carrying it. Plus, you know, closing unnecessary security gaps.

Yeah, migration is a hassle. We'll get it sorted out.

Thanks!

Comments

[madfilkentist]

I've never used my LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth and doubt that I'll start now. But thanks for the information. Figuring out all the LJ-DW connections is complicated. Yesterday I connected my LJ open ID to my DW account, following mdlbear's recommendation.

[shewhomust]

I'm not planning on migrating to DW unless forced to do so, but just in case, hi! This is me...

[hudebnik]

"If you are not planning to use your LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth, because you have a native account and will be reading that way..."

Yup, that's me.

[dsrtao]

I intend to move solely to DW in the foreseeable future, and will not be using LJ to check DW.

[sine_nomine]

What hudebnik said.

Never have. Can't imagine I ever will. And, at some point, as you know, I'm bringing the LJ over here... though don't know if I'll shut it down.

[siderea]

You can punt siderea.livejournal.com from your DW access lists. I have this perfectly good DW account I'll be using.

[jducoeur]

I'm unlikely to read your Dreamwidth posts on LJ -- I'm only going to be doing that for a few folks such as siderea, who tend to have especially interesting comment threads -- so feel free to take the LJ account off. (Although, now that I've merged the accounts, do they still show up separately?)

[zare_k]

If you are not planning to use your LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth, because you have a native account and will be reading that way

This applies to me

[hlinspjalda]

I too have a native DW account; I think we're already set.