More Livejournal dubiousness

[feuervogel]

The newest code update includes little links to post your comment to Twitter and/or facebook. Per the third bullet point, this also includes screened and locked comments. Unless your crosspost by default, you need to manually select crossposting, but those little ticky boxes are really easy to hit by accident.

This is not OK from a privacy standpoint. Not at all.

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Comments

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I've got DW, and I think I'll be doing more with it. I think I still have some invites, and my username is the same.

This is bloody ridiculous.

[feuervogel]

Agreed.

I keep debating dropping LJ entirely, but there are so many communities over here that I rely on and are much more active than similar ones on DW.

[kirin]

Eh, the settings that happen if you actually set it to post comments by default do look terrible, but at least that setting is off by default. Honestly, this doesn't look so bad to me compared to previous screw-ups. At least they got everything correctly opt-in this time.

I don't see why I'd ever want to use it for comments, but I actually probably will use it for some posts.

[feuervogel]

Unlike facebook, yeah. And it's opt-in, thank fuck. But it's still sketchy that someone could repost a comment to this locked entry to facebook or twitter. Sketchtastic.

[kirin]

I guess, though it's not like anyone with access to the entry couldn't write something new about it elsewhere anyway. But yeah, you wouldn't want to do it by accident. It seems to me like actually wanting to broadcast a *comment* is a rare enough thing that the options there ought to be tucked away in a drop-down or something; better UI design regardless of the privacy issues anyway. I can see them much more commonly being used to broadcast original posts, so I don't really mind them there.

Though it only makes sense for them to show up if you've already linked/authorized LJ to post to your twitter and/or facebook. Do the boxes appear even if you haven't? If so, that's just kind of dumb.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I wonder how long it'll be before a browser puts in the ability to turn off cross-site features like that, such that even if you activate one, it pops up a warning or simply doesn't act on it. I wonder how difficult that would be to create.

[kirin]

Well, as usual, LJ more-or-less gets it a few weeks late. They're changing it so you can't repost comments on locked/private posts or screened comments.