End result is me still playing maintainer over at LJ when no one wants to leave the content of those comms behind. End result is me and everyone in those comms not migrating to DW because the comms they use regularly and constitute the bulk of their "community" are still at LJ.
I respect the technological difficulties of this, and I really WANT to migrate to DW, but not if it makes my life more difficult. Surely DW-dev realizes what a huge stumbling block this is going to be? Because if comms can't import, then as mod I simply won't migrate. I'll get a DW personal journal and spend as much time there as I do at IJ. *is very very sad* ::::KBS / Mikey ~Always Blameless~ On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Harold J Hotchkiss < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Lije Carpenter wrote: > > The precise feeling of community that Dreamwidth is attempting to foster > > is going to seem like lip service when people are told they'll have to > > abandon several years' worth of community interaction (all such posts > > and their comments on LJ) for the sake of OpenID users. OpenID > > crossfunctionality is all well and good, but when everyone else is > > deprived of a pretty major feature for the convenience of the OpenID > > crowd... I'd say the emphasis is being placed on the wrong group of > users. > > Here's the thing... we're all "the OpenId crowd." Letting your LJ > friends maintain control of their comments when posted to DW is not only > an admirable goal, it's a deal breaker for a lot of people looking to > maintain control of the words that they have written. > Where that fails is that since OpenID accounts cannot post, currently, > then they can't maintain control of their words/posts in an imported > community. > > Example-time: > * You import your journal from LJ - That includes a comment that I made > months back, and since I logged into DW with my LJ OpenID, I can see > that comment, edit it, delete it, etc... > * You import a community you maintain - If I posted to that community a > while ago I now have no ability to go to that entry on DW and edit it, > delete it, freeze comments, etc... all because of a technical > limitation to what an OpenID user can do. > > -- > Harold > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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