Not only am I in some cases prevented from leaving comments on locked LJ posts, but in leaving a comment on an unlocked post I had to pass through a captcha and have my posting of a link sanitized into unclickability. What indignity! Being an OpenID user, sadly, appears to make one a second class netizen in LJ-land.
I would recommend, for anyone looking for a smooth transition, that they not go with OpenID. It is not smooth. I’m sticking with it for my own reasons, but frankly, maintaining accounts on every journal system in common use would be simpler and less hassle.
Yeah, it seems to be not working so well… I missed all your recent posts, grr. I was wondering where you’d gone and if you were okay. Go technical glitches. Can you still read my stuff, or is that broken too?
I’ve been reading your stuff just fine – I just can’t comment on it unless I log in with my LJ account, but I don’t think there’s much you could do about that which wouldn’t be extra hassle. It’s not a big deal for me to log in when I want to comment.
I have RSS working now, including for all locked posts, so I’ve been keeping up just fine. I’m still not sure whether I’m doing this long term, but this is being a year of stepping outside my old systems, so I’m giving it a few months. But yeah.. I’m over here, I’m fine, I’m trying to hold myself down to posting once a week. More progress in the past month than usual for me, actually. *grins* I’m not sure I want to know how much of that is due to spending less time on LJ, but at least I’m not losing track of too many friends, even if they sometimes temporarily lose track of me.
Bugger. I should have said: I have RSS working for reading other people’s stuff, and the RSS feed of this blog working. LJ is a #$!%# about talking to outside stuff, so that doesn’t do much good for people keeping up with what I’m doing.