So I was just poking around the Dreamwidth journals of some friends of mine, and I was surprised to find a comment left by me, desh.livejournal.com the OpenID user. I've never left a comment on Dreamwidth before! And I clicked through to "my" profile and apparently I'd left a total of 132 comments?!?!
Of course, as someone who's been following the project and this mailing list and so on, I wasn't actually worried, because I immediately realized what happened: people imported journals with my comments already on them. This is fine with me. But for some people, the explanation might not be clear and/or the end result might not be desirable. We're certainly going to need help content explaining to someone who has never been to the site before why they might have already left many comments on the service. And we're going to need some way to (minimally) have an admin delete all comments left by a user, or (ideally) give users an opportunity to view all comments they've left on the service. Perhaps the latter should be restricted by entry security, but I'm not even sure of that. And one more thing: Once I realized I had probably left some comments on the service, I was eager to see my OpenID user's profile page. But I couldn't find it without first tracking down a comment I'd left and clicking through to it. http://desh.livejournal.com.dreamwidth.org/profile didn't work, and neither did http://www.dreamwidth.org/userinfo.bml?user=desh.livejournal.com . The only forms of the URL that I know work involve using either a userid or the ext_12345 username-thing, and of course I didn't know either of them for myself. Is there a way to improve this? Thanks, Josh Rosenberg (LJ: desh) _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
