Would it be possible to have some sort of compromise where once the OpenID claiming is in place that you only import community posts that are made by users who have switched to Dreamwidth and have the OpenID claimed under their Dreamwidth name? It won't work for really large communities, but perhaps it will work for smaller ones with limited membership. I have no idea if coding this is feasible though...
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:47 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 > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
