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

[fajrdrako]

I've been writing my entries in Dreamwidth but it forwards immediately to Livejournal, and I get comments in both places. Really not confusing; it doesn't matter which you read, though if you read both DW and LJ you'll see the same things at any given time. I even use the same icons, most of the time.

In any case, welcome to DW! Nice to see another friend here.

[azurelunatic]

The soandso.livejournal.com is for OpenID users; OpenID is sort of like a passport that LJ users can use in order to sign in to DW, so they can read locked entries when someone's granted access to them by their OpenID, comment, and get notifications. They can get email notifications if they've set up and confirmed an email address.

You can set up feeds for people's public entries on LJ for your reading page, but that is separate. (Those are set up on http://www.dreamwidth.org/feeds/ and you enter http://soandso.livejournal.com/data/rss in the place where it says "Feed URL" to start.)

Getting rid of the tags: the option should be in http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=modules somewhere.

[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.

[thebluerose]

Hi! I assume this account was added because you know the person who has the same name on LJ, but unfortunately I am not, in fact, that person. (I wish you luck in tracking them down, though!)