Thanks to an update to the OpenID Comments plugin for MT, you can now post comments using your OpenID or LiveJournal accounts as well as TypeKey, or just as a boring old unregistered user. The feature has been there for a while but it’s taken until now for it to actually work.
You also now don’t need to provide your email address when commenting. This is mostly down to a side effect of the OpenID plugin – OpenID doesn’t provide email addresses, so if I require them all OpenID comments will be rejected – but I’ve found that those who don’t want to provide their email addresses will use a fake one anyway. I would still like you to provide your email address, however, as it means that I can email you replies to your comments. It also means you can optionally get email updates when new comments are posted to an entry.
By the way, all of you TypeKey users are also OpenID users. Log in to your TypeKey account and update your details (you don’t have to make any changes but you will need to submit the form). This will OpenID-enable your TypeKey profile page at http://profile.typekey.com/[yourusername] .
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October 8, 2005 at 21:15
thats actually profile.typekey.com
October 9, 2005 at 05:11
Cheers! That’s good news.
October 9, 2005 at 06:40
Nothing wrong with being unregistered
October 9, 2005 at 07:23
Heh, I can use OpenID, yipee!
October 9, 2005 at 17:03
Yay OpenID! Now to work out whether I should use this or TypeKey in the future.
I’ll probably stick with TypeKey, I think.
October 13, 2005 at 14:29
Hmmm…I saved my profile at TypeKey, but I don’t see any changes regarding OpenID.
November 6, 2005 at 20:46
OpenID – Heard of it?
I’ve added OpenID support to my site, I need to change it a little though so the log-in box disappears when you log-in. Hopefully I’ll find the code to the box like at Neil’s World or markpasc.org . Wait, I added…