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What if we emphasize the shape of a handle instead of teaching vocabulary? With a little animation, we can show a examples of handles they might recognize and hint at more with "@proto.handle".

24/4/26, 11:48 am2 reposts6 likes

Paul Johnecheck

@7hird.dev

25 Apr

@brookie.blog @sean.thenewells.us I finally did it. bsky.app/profile/7hir...

Paul Johnecheck@7hird.dev

Seems like Sean and I are thinking similarly. I'm imagining it looking like someone is scrolling through options, making the placeholder text fade out as it moves up while the next placeholder fades in from the bottom. bsky.app/profile/sean...

Paul Johnecheck

@7hird.dev

24 Apr

@sgo.to the .handle tld would complement this well.

Brookie

@brookie.blog

25 Apr

very cool ! i still feel like too much motion in the login input can be a little confusing or distracting, but i like the approach of simplifying like this. looks nice :)