On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 13:34, Denise Paolucci <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2). Allowing OpenID users to function as full-featured personal accounts > would completely bypass the invite code system, which we are using as > necessary to control site growth and limit the number of free (unpaying) > accounts to a number that can be supported by the then-current percentage of > paid accounts.
Ah, right; I hadn't considered that. You have a point there, of course. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 17:06, Harold J Hotchkiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps [...] an invite code or > payment could be required of upgrading the account. That sounds like a possible way around it, though -- if such an upgraded OpenID account has a journal, userpics, etc., at least they're contributing just as much as other paid accounts and/or were started with an invite code that made sure creation of such accounts is rate-limited. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 15:01, Josh Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > What if you can also link an OpenID account in this way, and mark the > OpenID account as primary? Then I could log in to DW as my OpenID account > username.openid.net (without typing a password), switch to the associated > personal account username2 (without typing a password), and go about my > business. I still would've had to create username2 through the usual > channels (password, invite code or payment, etc.), but then I can > effectively log in without using that password ever again. I still won't > be able to post in username.openid.net's (nonexistent) journal, but this > might be the next best thing. That also sounds like a reasonable compromise. (Though I can imagine this functionality wouldn't be around for a while, as other things take precedence.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
