I’ve had a livejournal account for a long time now.
Quite frankly, I’m tired of the headaches that synchronizing Wordpress with LJ brings. In addition to the problems of maintaining the mirror, I had to contend with the growing linkspam that was being generated.
I’ve started replacing each of my dependencies upon Livejournal with alternate solutions. I’ve been using a feed reader I hacked together to read various peoples blogs, instead of using my LJ friends page. I’m now commenting on other livejournals with OpenID rather than commenting with my LJ account. I implemented an OpenID consumer on this blog so that various livejournal users could comment on it easily. And now, with the assistance of Kitty, my blog at verselogic.net is being syndicated to livejournal.com/users/verselogic, so you LJ folks can easily friend that feed and continue along happily.
Last time I disabled comments people complained. No doubt people will complain again. I’ve tried to smooth the transition, but nothing is perfect.
The codepoetica livejournal account is going away, but I’m not.
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Hm, I suppose, at this point, I’ll have to hope that people actually leave comments here, rather than use the rather odd LJ capability of adding comments to the syndication feed itself. I’d hate to have to add both your blog and the LJ syndication feed to my list of RSS feeds just to keep up with both your words, and those of the people responding.
Additionally, attempting to login using OpenID throws up some really freaky SQL errors. Not sure if I did something wrong or what, but…
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list']
INSERT INTO wp_users (user_login, user_pass, user_nickname, user_email, user_ip, user_browser, user_registered, user_level, user_idmode, user_nicename, user_url) VALUES (‘http://www.livejournal.com/users/countalpicola/’, MD5(‘63e89a28c1e892d9596′), ‘countalpicola at livejournal.com’, ”, ‘67.38.4.221′, ‘Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Firefox/1.5′, ‘1136103774′, ‘0′, ‘nickname’, ‘countalpicola at livejournal.com’, ‘http://www.livejournal.com/users/countalpicola/’)
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list']
SELECT user_login,user_pass,user_nickname FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘http://www.livejournal.com/users/countalpicola/’
ERROR: Couldn’t register you… please contact the webmaster !
Dang. Thanks for the heads-up Rob. Looks like the upgrade to WP2.0 /did/ break something. Probably a table layout.
I rather hope noone comments on the LJ feeds at all, but I can’t really stop them. All I can do is not read them myself, and hope everyone else does likewise.
Works for me. ^_^
My openid customer plugin was broken by WP2, because the authentication methodology I was hooking into has changed, as well as some table shifts.
So I’m going to have to redesign some of it. Tomorrow morning.
This I say now.
The OpenID consumer is somewhat fixed. Some data cleanup still needs to be done for failed connections, but I can worry about that later.
Any suggestions to clean up the form, and display:none the deselected option blocks on demand? Preferably a pure css solution, but I’m not sure how to select based on radio buttons being checked (doesn’t seem to be a dom property).
Update: Nothing in CSS/DOM can get this done natively, so I’m using a little javascript to hide blocks for deselected entries. The show/hide is done using css, and degrades to showing all 3 blocks if the javascript doesn’t execute.