Privacy settings was much better with live space!
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Hmm, so….why can’t my msn contacts read my blog like they used to? I have a personal blog that I share with family and friends (msn contacts 100+) And I can’t expect them to go and create WP accounts to read my blog, so why can’t they authenticate with live ID? Someone seems to have made a plugin for it even, but didn’t quite understand how that works in conjunction with my blog… http://www.muscetta.com/live-id-wordpress-plugin/
If my readers can’t log in to read my blog my whole blog suddenly is rendered completely and utterly useless! :S Going public is not an option.
So did I miss something here, or is this a huge loss of functionality compared to the old live space blog??
This is a big number 2 on the leg if this functionality that many people use is suddenly MISSING!!
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For all the users coming from live space, WP really really needs to implement Windows Live ID SDK as means of alternative authentication! If not this in fact forced move to WP feels like a human rights violation! You are offered 3 options.
1. Delete your blog
2. Download your blog to your computer
3. Transfer to WP.option 1 and 2 is really completely useless
So there is only 1 option, transfer to WP. So we have been forced to move to WP.
When we are forced to move here, all the people who just read the blog should not be forced to create accounts. There is already to many usernames and passwords people have to remember today. When there exists open API’s to authenticate against Live ID this should absolutely have been in place before this transfer was announced!
Now please, WP go sit down with MS and work out how you can implement Windows Live ID SDK ASAP!
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Windows Live ID is one of the PROBLEMS with Windows Live Space. It’s a huge security hole.
You expected your readers to authenticate with Windows. Windows then abandoned your blog. Your blog is at WordPress.com now, so why would you not expect your readers to have to authenticate with WP.com?
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I agree with raincoaster, WordPress has made a very sensible decision to have one secure means of login. It is not unreasonable to expect people wanting to share a wordpress blog to get a wordpress login. You can send them invitaions to join.
However if anybody really wants to they should be able to export their blog from wordpres.com and import it into a self-hosted wordpress.org site, then use the OpenId plugin to allow anyone to log in using OpenID. Windows live can provide an OpenID.
I would not do this myself, as the Windows live login might well be one of the things that will disappear in six months anyway, with a WordPress login at least you know it will still be there.
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@st185cs you were not “forced” to move here – MS dumped you and your blog – WP stepped up and welcomed you and 30,000,000 of your fellow blogers here, no charge, and provided a migration path, your beef is with MS not WordPress.COM.
You are also free to migrate from here if you want. WordPress will not hold your files hostage.
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Your problem is that wordpress wasn’t designed with your kind of semi-private blog in mind; it’s aimed at people who want to blog publically. If you have 100+ users, you would have to tell them all to sign up here AND buy an upgrade to make your private blog accessible to more than 35 people. I agree with you that this may not be the most practical course of action.
For your particular needs, you might be better off with Facebook or Blogger. There is a decent chance your readers will already have accounts on one or both of these (Blogger being part of Google). It sucks, but that’s the trouble with hosting your content on ANY third-party service, you can never guarantee that it’s going to be around indefinitely.
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True, but DO keep in mind Facebook has a way of changing your privacy settings without telling you.
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Actually, Livejournal might work. But people would still have to register there. Livejournal has excellent privacy protection.
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I thought they’d have to register too, but I just checked and LJ does have OpenID authentication, which suddenly makes it look a lot more attractive. It’s just a shame they have no import feature.
It really depends what you want to do with your blog. Like, I wouldn’t recommend LJ to someone who wants to share a lot of photos because they’d either have to buy an upgrade or host the images elsewhere, but if they’d rather write it would definitely be a more appropriate choice than Facebook.
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I figured how to migrate my private blog from Windows Live Space to blogspot.com instead…check out my information here: st185cs.wordpress.com
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