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[onceamy]

Hi there,

For some time now, the Wiki Committee has thought about turning off OpenID because it is a hard service to support, and many OpenID servers (such as LiveJournal) have issues with their stability. However, we have 300+ accounts that use OpenID, or who have OpenID registered on their account.

There are three types of OpenID setups:

1. people who have registered using OpenID, but who have not entered an email address or password
2. people who have registered using OpenID but who have entered an email address
3. people who have registered using the standard registration form (and thus provided a username and password), and added an OpenID later.

The first group of users (who have neither an email address nor a password) are encouraged to set an email address in this post, by logging in using OpenID and going to My Preferences and entering an email address in the "Email:" field. They are also encouraged to set a password after setting an email address by entering their username on the User Login page, and clicking "Email new password".

The second group (who have an email address) can simply log out and type in their username on the User Login page, and click the "Email new password" to receive a password. This group is advised to make sure their email address is up to date on the My Preferences page.

Both types of users can change their password after receiving the initial one.

People in the third group will not be affected when OpenID is turned off, though they are encouraged to make sure their email address is up to date on the My Preferences page.

We are not in any rush to turn off OpenID, and please feel free to ask for assistance -- moving over people may take some time, and we'll send out another email/post another post closer to the time when we are ultimately ready to turn it off.

- Amy [The Wiki Committee]

Comments

[velocitygrass]

I just wanted to try and check if I have entered email and password or used Open ID when I signed up. I manually entered www.fanlore.org instead of following your link and got a 404. Is it by design that adding the www in the URL doesn't work?

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

It works for me if I follow your link.

[velocitygrass]

That's strange. I'm using the latest Firefox and just checked in IE where I also get a 404.

Thanks for checking. Do you use a different browser?

[ratcreature]

I have that problems sometimes with websites, that my computer finds all websites okay, just a single one domain not. It usually goes away if I reboot my router and it connects anew to the DNS servers of my internet provider.

[velocitygrass]

Maybe it's just on my end. When I ping fanlore.org it returns fanlore.org [69.164.212.99]. When I do the same for www.fanlore.org it returns zen.transformativeworks.org [67.23.2.53].

Just wanted to point it out in case it's a server configuration issue.

Okay, I just checked through an anonymous browsing service and there the redirect to http://fanlore.org worked, so it does seem to be something on my end.

[ratcreature]

FWIW, earlier today I had a 404 result once too, but that lasted only a few minutes.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Do you use a different browser?

No, I'm using the latest Firefox too.

[velocitygrass]

It seems that for some reason the redirect to http://fanlore.org doesn't work for me. Strange, but I'm glad it's not a general issue.

[onceamy]

I can definitely ask Systems about this -- just to make sure that it's not our issue.

ETA: I've sent this for investigation!

[onceamy]

Systems got back to me, and stated that it may have been a hiccup with ISPs, or our hosting facility. Our DNS details have not changed since February, also.

[velocitygrass]

It really is strange, because I just checked and still got a 404. If I change DNS-Servers it's okay, so it seems to be an ongoing issue with my DNS server.

Thanks for checking!