Bug (and workaround) in OpenID access to Dreamwidth

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:46:06 GMT

If you use OpenID to log into Dreamwidth (e.g. by using your LJ account), you may well have noticed it isn't working properly at the moment. This is because the most recent code push broke the main OpenID login form; a fix has been merged into the code, but presumably won't be deployed until the next code push.

In there mean time, there is a workaround: even though the main OpenID login form is broken, you can still use the comment form to log in.

If you click reply on any public entry, choose OpenID as your user type and tick the login box, and then click preview, that should log you in (without posting a comment), and then you can use DW as normal.

Thanks to angoel for reporting the bug to me (and confirming the workaround works) and to roadrunnertwice for the workaround.

ETA: I think the bugfix was applied during yesterday's code push.

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Bug (and workaround) in OpenID access to Dreamwidth