Just tuned in and heard @pfrazee.com mention that now when you change your <handle>.bsky.social to a custom domain handle it will reserve your old .bsky.social handle for you! This is one of those features that slipped through the cracks for way too long. Glad the team finally got to it! 🙏🙏🙏 - ThreadSky

jacob.gold • 79 days ago

Just tuned in and heard @pfrazee.com mention that now when you change your .bsky.social to a custom domain handle it will reserve your old .bsky.social handle for you!

This is one of those features that slipped through the cracks for way too long. Glad the team finally got to it!

🙏🙏🙏

Reposted from Boris

The @oxide.computer and friends show has @pfrazee.com on this afternoon, titled "Scaling with Bluesky"

Here's a @smokesignal.events event to remind yourself smokesignal.events/did:plc:lehc... #atproto

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alsotop.net•79 days ago

@serebii.bsky.social FYI

falcucci.eu•78 days ago

lovely

timonsku.zip•79 days ago

question is does it do it retroactively or do I have to switch back to a bsky handle to make use of the change?

nonbinary.computer•79 days ago

One way to find out. Try and make https://naamahorual.bsky.social that's my original handle

jacksonpetty.org•79 days ago

Is there documentation or other communication from the bsky team confirming this?

jacob.gold•79 days ago

jacksonpetty.org•79 days ago

oh awesome thanks!

fry69.dev•78 days ago

Also -> https://bsky.app/profile/emilyliu.me/post/3ldjbkebpgs2g

therealgsmith.com•79 days ago

Okay, so ... how do I reserve my old handle after already changing it months ago?

moni.fans•79 days ago

I lost my first handle to that so happy to see this

eustace.link•78 days ago

I squatted my old handle as soon as I switched to a domain. Guess I'll continue to have both.

nakulshenoy.bsky.social•79 days ago

*same pinch*

kevinyap.ca•79 days ago

@pfrazee.com Is there a recommended procedure to follow for folks who have already changed to a custom domain and set up a (new) "forwarding" account to reserve their name?

kevinyap.ca•79 days ago

I'm going to assume this was your reply to this post lmao — thanks @pfrazee.com!

kevinyap.ca•78 days ago

Adding more context to the thread here for visibility: while the "reserved handle" change doesn't apply retroactively to an account, if you made a "squatting" account to reserve your handle, you can follow this flow to achieve the same result!

evan.best•79 days ago

Huge.

nakulshenoy.bsky.social•79 days ago

And hopefully, both the .domain handle and the .bsky.social handle resolve to the profile.

That way, people who know / use the old handle will not get lost and will be auto resolved to the current (domain) handle.

nonbinary.computer•79 days ago

That sort of happens already, where @handle mentions and so on use the underlying DID, so anything created in-app before you switch handles redirects correctly. But web urls do key off handle by default (though you can manually use the DID instead) and get broken by the change.

lucidillusions.in•79 days ago

i think this has been fixed too, or maybe something Ryan did for the bridge, since I mostly see the link on there, and it is always resolved to DID

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