I finally did the whole register my LJ account as an OpenID at DW last night, and I've got a few questions/things-I-noticed.
Where I'm coming from: I'm a long term LJ user (well, 6 years), and while I'm reasonably proficient with LJ, I know it less well now than when I started. (LJ changed things (often!) and I didn't keep up with it all...) It should also be noted that this was the first time I'd really used OpenID in any (meaningful) way. [Which is my way of saying, this may be obvious to regular OpenID users/more proficient LJers and not actually broken/worth mentioning.] 1. It took me an embarrassing amount of time (and a FAQ) to realise I couldn't make posts. As an OpenID user, this perhaps should be obvious. As a user coming from LJ is was less so. Especially since I had a reading list and could subscribe to people, ie the expectation was there that I could also post. So perhaps as well as telling a new OpenID user what they *can* do, it might be worth pointing out what they *can't* do? I also expected to input my DoB on creating the OpenID DW account, and when I didn't I assumed that I couldn't do such a thing, and that I'd just have to live with forever having 'content rated 14+' collapsed. (I only really noticed the lack of DoB when I realised that I couldn't change the content selection to collapse/cut nothing.) This probably falls into the category of 'We can't do *everything* for the user, they have to explore a little on their own." but I figured it was worth mentioning as something that wasn't how I expected it/wasn't obvious. 2. As an OpenID user, on my reading page, is it correct that I can only see 'read' and not 'read?skip=20' (or whatever number)? Or am I missing something obvious? Or is something broken/not implemented yet? 3. (This is actually what prompted me to post this!) How can I view another OpenID user's profile? I was scanning through some of the comms and reading comments, when I saw a comment from someone I thought I knew and wanted to check their profile. Their username was an OpenID (from LJ), but they had an icon so I naturally assumed that they had a DW presence, ie a profile page. However, when I clicked on their username [theirname.livejournal.com], I was told that no such user exists. It took a couple tries before I realised that the link took me to their 'recent entries' page, which as OpenID user, they don't have. I can obviously go an look at this person's LJ profile, but if this user was someone from another blogging site I may not have known how to find their Other Blog profile. Or if their OpenID was not related to a blog at all, but instead their own domain. Basically, I think it should be much easier to see an OpenID profile (if I've missed the obvious way, please point it out to me!), and that a 'username' (even 'just' an OpenID) link shouldn't lead to a page that says the user doesn't exist! 4. I was (previously) under the impression that I could create an OpenID account/profile at DW, and then when the site went live, I could upgrade/magically change this to a (paid) DW account. Denise's reponse to Paul-Gabriel Wiener made me think otherwise. [http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-discuss/2009-March/001498.html] Quote: On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:52 AM, Paul-Gabriel Wiener wrote: > 1. I signed up on DW with OpenID to help keep track of community > posts and stuff. (It's just nifty how well that works.) I just > noticed that my LJ-based OpenID has DW user # 3333. That is cool. > Well, it's cool in general that there are already over 3k users > (even if many of them are duplicate accounts). But it's personally > cool to have that number. Is there any way I could quietly > substitute my new (real) account for my (temporary) OpenID so that > I can keep the number? Swapping around userids can cause problems if it's not done properly, so we're going to limit that to very special cases, so most probably not; sorry! End Quote Am I confusing two separate issues, or will my LJ OpenID account be forever separate from my DW account? Despite the above blips, I'm very much impressed with OpenID experience - you got me to at least *try it*, and then make attempts to use it, which is a lot more than I've done with previous sites (when I couldn't even figure out how to go about attempting to work with OpenID)! Thanks, Loriel _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
