By Artem on

Hi All

I am running a Drupal site with comments allowed for anonyms and registered users.

Nowadays most of people have more or less public accounts at least somewhere and I'd like to give them a way for identification without the hassle of the registration.
What is the best way for allowing people to comment using the site account, facebook account, twitter account, openID account (anything else would be a nice bonus)?

It would also be great to have an ability for commenters to:
1) Get notified about further comments by email regardless of the account they used
2) Be able to merge several accounts they used into one (e.g. twitter and facebook account based comments to be put under the site account)
Though that is optional.

Any advices on which modules I should look at?

Best regards,
Artem.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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RKS commented

I'm thinking of trying this module http://drupal.org/project/comment_login in combination with the Janrain module http://drupal.org/project/rpx. Janrain lets you use all the accounts you mention to login to the site and the comment login module affixes the login form to comment forms.

I haven't tried it yet but I plan to do so later today. If you get around to trying to before then, let me know if it works. What I hope is going to happen is that Janrain (normally affixed to every login page) is also added to the comment form along with the login form.

[EDIT] I didn't address your other two questions, but I haven't ever looked into those before. I too would like users to get email updates. I hate that this site doesn't have the option.