Sweeeeet!!! I'd been thinking of ways to approach that but hadn't gotten as far as writing any pseudocode yet. Nice!
The authentication issue is a thorny one, for sure. What's the best place to drop in on a conversation about it so I'm not just suggesting things that have already been wrestled with? One of the communities here? (I haven't seen any mailing list traffic the last few days.)
I've got an idea that may have already been brought up, and has the downside that it requires convincing all the other sites to make a significant change: let users set up alternate, reduced-privilege passwords so they could give DW a post-only (no reading anything locked, no changing other passwords) password for their LJ account instead of their main LJ password. Getting the tiered-access password code propagated everywhere would be a heck of a task though.
We don't really have a conversation going per se -- it's kinda been scattered. Some kind of limited-access authentication scheme is definitely in the cards, though, with a fallback to the 'old' way of doing it if the site doesn't support that kind of authentication.
Automagic edit propogation
The authentication issue is a thorny one, for sure. What's the best place to drop in on a conversation about it so I'm not just suggesting things that have already been wrestled with? One of the communities here? (I haven't seen any mailing list traffic the last few days.)
I've got an idea that may have already been brought up, and has the downside that it requires convincing all the other sites to make a significant change: let users set up alternate, reduced-privilege passwords so they could give DW a post-only (no reading anything locked, no changing other passwords) password for their LJ account instead of their main LJ password. Getting the tiered-access password code propagated everywhere would be a heck of a task though.
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