And, finally, I have just tried logging out as strange_complex and back in as purple_pen, in order to check whether the purple_pen identity was really still working, or was just a left-over artefact of the fact that I hadn't yet logged out of it since changing my LJ username. The answer to that one is that although I wrote "purple-pen.livejournal.com" in the login box, the system has logged me in as "strange-complex.livejournal.com" (as you can see). So, as I suspected might happen, I have lost control of the old purple-pen.livejournal.com OpenID. It's still there, all the old comments which I made under that name still seem to be present and correct, and nobody else can take it over as far as I know. But I also can't log in to it or do anything with it now.
That's not particularly disastrous for me, as I did not have very many access permissions or subscriptions on the old identity, so I can just go round asking the same people to grant me access under the new one. But I can well see that for some people who move regularly between the two platforms and have developed profiles on both, it would be an absolute disaster - and definitely something that they ought to be warned about before undertaking a name change on LJ.
So, there it goes! And if you would be so kind as to grant me access to your journal under my new ID, I'd be really grateful. :-/
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Date: 2010-Sep-25, Saturday 10:39 (UTC)That's not particularly disastrous for me, as I did not have very many access permissions or subscriptions on the old identity, so I can just go round asking the same people to grant me access under the new one. But I can well see that for some people who move regularly between the two platforms and have developed profiles on both, it would be an absolute disaster - and definitely something that they ought to be warned about before undertaking a name change on LJ.
So, there it goes! And if you would be so kind as to grant me access to your journal under my new ID, I'd be really grateful. :-/