A new community has appeared!
That's right! A shiny new community, opening up close to you, in the awesome little suburb known as Dreamwidth!
Thrill at the characters! Marvel at the tagging system! Be astounded at the way the colours of the community are very nearly the same!
Donning our serious hats for a moment...
We're not enforcing the move, or shutting the LJ community. ( Read more... )
Thrill at the characters! Marvel at the tagging system! Be astounded at the way the colours of the community are very nearly the same!
Donning our serious hats for a moment...
We're not enforcing the move, or shutting the LJ community. ( Read more... )
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Hey there fellow muns! This is a quick guide as to your new options regarding LJ vs. DW accounts and how they can interact and cross over with each other. You have a number of choices in interacting with the two communities, and while they might seem complicated, I assure you that they're well worth having a look through. So without further ado!
Using OpenID
OpenID is a decentralized authentication protocol, which is a fancy way of saying that it lets you use an account from one service that has OpenID (like LJ) on another similar service that also has OpenID (like DW, or Wordpress). In other words, you can use your LiveJournal account to leave comments on Dreamwidth entries without ever having to create a Dreamwidth account, or even having to log out. OpenID knows your LJ account is valid, and vouches for it on the site you want to comment on.
OpenIDing with LJ on DW
To use your LJ account on Dreamwidth, simply make sure you're logged in properly to LiveJournal, then go to ... )
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Setting up a new account on Dreamwidth is a simple and painless process. Go to https://www.dreamwidth.org/create and fill out the form. Dreamwidth account names can be up to 25 characters long, so you have a bit more flexibility in choosing a username. Basic accounts get 15 icons and 25 tracking subscriptions. (A comparison table of free vs. paid account features can be found here.)
Claiming OpenID(s)
So maybe you've decided that you'd rather make a DW account than mess around with OpenID, but you don't like the look of all of those ugly OpenID comments sitting in the community. No problem! Dreamwidth has recently implemented a new feature that allows you to claim an existing OpenID with a validated Dreamwidth account. What this means is that all of the comments and entries made by an OpenID will be bound to the Dreamwidth account instead, making them look and operate as if they came from that account in the first place. An example of an entry ( ... )
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Okay, so after some experimentation and a bit of trial and error, I've discovered that you can run into some problems with claiming an OpenID if you try to do it without ever having logged into said OpenID before. The claim will go through okay, but you can lose the icon keywords on your comments or not have the conversion take place for whatever reason.
To that end, if you'd like to claim an LJ OpenID on DW, log in to Dreamwidth as that OpenID first, set and verify your email and birthday as per the instructions in the first comment of this post. Uploading an icon or two also helps.
Once that's done, log out of DW, log back in as the Dreamwidth account you want to claim with, and then go through the claim process as you normally would. This makes it much more likely that your claim will go through the way it's meant to.
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If you've made yourself a new Dreamwidth account and validated it, you can also do what's known as an import. Importing is a unique DW feature that allows you to transfer all of your comments, entries, tags, friends groups, profile information, and icons (and icon keywords) from a LiveJournal or InsaneJournal account to your Dreamwidth account ( ... )
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LiveJournal also has a number of LJ-specific markup codes, such as the username code and journal cut code, that have correlations in Dreamwidth.
LJ's username code takes the form myusername to create is-not-watson. On DW, the basic username code takes the form , without any title field.
However, DW allows you to specify usernames from other sites, and it will automatically populate them with the proper userhead and link. To make a LiveJournal username link on DW, you'd use the code . (When you import LJ entries to a Dreamwidth account, all username links in the entries automatically get converted into this form.) Dreamwidth also allows you to make username links for accounts from InsaneJournal, OpenID accounts, Plurk, Twitter, Deviantart, ArchiveOfOurOwn, Tumblr, and more. (See a full list here.)
On DW, the ( foo )
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