I'm hearing a lot of "This is too confusing!" from my friends on LJ when I crosspost. Part of the problem is that if the DW post is locked, the link on the LJ post takes people directly to www.dreamwidth.org. Could it go to a different page, maybe something that says "The page you have requested is access-locked. Please log in." followed by login boxes for BOTH DW users and OpenID? Then after login it would redirect to the locked post they were trying to reach in the first place.

(This has probably already been suggested, but I wanted to reiterate it, because a frustrated flist is not a happy thing!)