another question or three

[mmegaera]

So, in this process of moving over from LJ to DW, I've been subscribing to as much of my LJ FL as exists over here, or that I can find under the same usernames, at any rate (any advice on how to find people who might be on DW who I only know by their LJ username would be useful, short of sending PMs to each one -- I will post on LJ asking for them...).

Occasionally I've been seeing soandso.livejournal.com in people's DW FLs, too, which is kind of confusing. How does that work? Does that mean I can read people's LJs on DW? What about commenting? What about email notifications if someone replies to those comments?

Oh, and how do I get rid of that "most popular tags" thing in my sidebar?

Thanks!

Comments

[annathepiper]

Other commenters have already said what the OpenID versions of IDs are. As to whether you can read people's LJs on Dreamwidth--yes you can, but if and only if their LJs have public feeds you can subscribe to on Dreamwidth. You'd still miss people's friendslocked posts, though, since those don't show up in public feeds.

What I've wound up having to do is to pull both my LJ and my DW lists down into the same client local to my machine. It's less convenient and takes a bit to set up, but it's meant that I can at least keep tabs on both sites without having to worry about visiting each in my browser.

This and this are also FAQ pages you'll want to check out.

[mmegaera]

My LJ notifications are now working. It took a couple of hours after I actually changed the settings, which is why I didn't think they were working, but when I checked my email just now, I received LJ notifications. So I guess I'm back in business [wry g]. I will continue to post over here and have it cross-posted over there, though, I think.

[annathepiper]

Cool. :)