Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Comments with OpenID

I just tweaked the settings on all three my blogs to disallow anonymous comments but to allow OpenID.
  • What is OpenID good for? It means you can use your LiveJournal login (or that of any other site that supports OpenID). You won't need to use a Google account if you don't have one.
  • Isn't it insecure to share passwords? Yes, but you're not sharing a password. Google simply gets told whether or not the other website validated your account.
  • How does it work? Click a comment page on this journal as normal. Then choose OpenID, enter your journal's URL (example: http://example.livejournal.com), and you'll be taken to LiveJournal and asked whether or not you want to validate your identity. Click yes and your comment will appear, complete with a free link back to your blog. Again, the only thing LJ tells Google is whether you clicked yes or no; no private information gets shared.
  • But what if I don't want to use this? Then don't. You can still comment with your Google account. I just figured I'd give everyone another way of signing posts.

1 comment:

  1. And this is what a comment left with OpenID looks like. Notice that it says lunar-dragoness up there instead of showing my Google name? :)

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