Will OpenID accounts be able to keep a journal, too (i.e. write entries in it), and post entries in communities?
I know they can't on LiveJournal, but I wonder whether Dreamwidth will allow it. Background: I've seen some people complain about the fact that lots of sites want to show they embrace OpenID by becoming OpenID _providers_, but not so many will become OpenID _consumers_. For example, you can use your Yahoo ID to log into LiveJournal but you can't use your LiveJournal ID to create a Yahoo mail account. But, as people point out, one of the points of OpenID was to create a "single-sign-on" experience so that people don't have to have dozens of individual accounts with individual passwords. But if OpenID users are second-class users, as at LiveJournal, then if they want to keep a journal, they need to create a "real" account. With its own password and everything. At which point they might think, what's the point of my OpenID again? So, I'm wondering whether there's a technical reason why OpenID users can't be treated pretty much the same as other accounts on Dreamwidth. (I'm guessing there isn't -- i.e. while it might not be possible right now, the code to change this would not be too great and might even consists partly of removing checks rather than adding additional code in some places -- but am willing to be told I'm wrong.) And the other thing is the policy side: is there a philosophical/policy/business reason why OpenID users should not be able to have journals and work like personal accounts? Uploading userpics, purchasing paid time, etc.? Cheers, -- Philip Newton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
