"LJ's new decision to allow users to tag others' journals re: 'adult content' has me wanting to head for greener blogging pastures, if I can find any."
I actually see this as less of an issue than the things they did earlier in the year, but I can certainly see it being the straw that broke the camel's back for someone, or just more evidence that "they don't get it" and waiting around for 6A's clue shipment to arrive is pointless.
I've been meaning to write a long entry exploring the issues for a couple months; I've finally figured out how I want to write the first part...
"(I gather it hasn't been easy lately, spoon-wise.)"
(It hasn't. But it feels like things are finally starting to improve a little.)
"I had been looking at Greatest Journal, but what you say about spam gives me pause."
GreatestJournal is being attacked heavily right now, but the spammers could just as easily turn their attention to one of the other sites at any time. I don't know whether or how the different sites differ in their ability to handle (ideally, detect and filter) spam. But yeah, right now anonymous commenting on GJ is probably more trouble than it's worth.
"I had thought that anonymous commenting would allow my LJ friends to comment there without a login, but perhaps if I created a second account as a "guest" login, for people who wanted to comment, that might work instead?"
Is a guest login with the password spread around enough to make it functionally anonymous allowable within the TOS of any of these sites?
Anyhow, OpenID will allow your staying-on-LJ friends to comment -- under their own names, even -- on your blog elsewhere, if you pick a site that implements the OpenID stuff. It'll look a lot like this when they do.
InsaneJournal supports OpenID, as you can see. So does CommieJournal. GreatestJournal and Blurty, AFAICT, do not. I don't know about DeadJournal, JournalFen, or the other LJ-codebase blogging sites that I don't have accounts on yet (there are oodles of them). But I bet there's a table showing which sites include which features, somewhere.
With OpenID you'd also have the option of commenting to your LJ-friends entries as your InsaneJournal (or CommieJournal) self, they way I'm doing here, as long as they've either friended your IJ ID or allow non-friends to post comments. Being able to see locked entries is a little less clear to me (I think that if you've logged in to LJ via OpenID using your IJ username, and they've friended your IJ account, you'll see the friends-locked entry, but that you do still have to remember to log into LJ after you've logged into IJ). But you said you were planning to keep your LJ identity for access to locked entries, so even if I'm wrong (or it winds up feeling like a hassle), you're covered that way.
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I actually see this as less of an issue than the things they did earlier in the year, but I can certainly see it being the straw that broke the camel's back for someone, or just more evidence that "they don't get it" and waiting around for 6A's clue shipment to arrive is pointless.
I've been meaning to write a long entry exploring the issues for a couple months; I've finally figured out how I want to write the first part...
"(I gather it hasn't been easy lately, spoon-wise.)"
(It hasn't. But it feels like things are finally starting to improve a little.)
"I had been looking at Greatest Journal, but what you say about spam gives me pause."
GreatestJournal is being attacked heavily right now, but the spammers could just as easily turn their attention to one of the other sites at any time. I don't know whether or how the different sites differ in their ability to handle (ideally, detect and filter) spam. But yeah, right now anonymous commenting on GJ is probably more trouble than it's worth.
"I had thought that anonymous commenting would allow my LJ friends to comment there without a login, but perhaps if I created a second account as a "guest" login, for people who wanted to comment, that might work instead?"
Is a guest login with the password spread around enough to make it functionally anonymous allowable within the TOS of any of these sites?
Anyhow, OpenID will allow your staying-on-LJ friends to comment -- under their own names, even -- on your blog elsewhere, if you pick a site that implements the OpenID stuff. It'll look a lot like this when they do.
InsaneJournal supports OpenID, as you can see. So does CommieJournal. GreatestJournal and Blurty, AFAICT, do not. I don't know about DeadJournal, JournalFen, or the other LJ-codebase blogging sites that I don't have accounts on yet (there are oodles of them). But I bet there's a table showing which sites include which features, somewhere.
With OpenID you'd also have the option of commenting to your LJ-friends entries as your InsaneJournal (or CommieJournal) self, they way I'm doing here, as long as they've either friended your IJ ID or allow non-friends to post comments. Being able to see locked entries is a little less clear to me (I think that if you've logged in to LJ via OpenID using your IJ username, and they've friended your IJ account, you'll see the friends-locked entry, but that you do still have to remember to log into LJ after you've logged into IJ). But you said you were planning to keep your LJ identity for access to locked entries, so even if I'm wrong (or it winds up feeling like a hassle), you're covered that way.
(cont'd.)