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📢 App Version 1.96 is rolling out now (1/6) In this release: a notifications Mentions tab, reserving your default username when you verify your account with a domain, and other improvements!

📢 1.96 is rolling out now (2/6) The Notifications screen now has a tab called “Mentions,” so you can more easily keep up with your replies and conversations.

📢 1.96 is rolling out now (4/6) You can now quickly change how replies are shown to you — with the settings button in post threads.

📢 1.96 is rolling out now (5/6) As always, we’d like to thank our GitHub contributors xenomachina, tkusano, Signez, claudiu-cristea, BradEstey, GrizliK1988, rcombs, mlocati, Juanpabl, snowp, ovniroto, thunderweasel, estrattonbailey, valtlai, benharri, monty241, skipness, …

📢 1.96 is rolling out now (6/6) … luan-u, softastur, tunetheweb, quiple, ivanbea, DavidBuchanan314, smileyhead, renanmav, auroursa, mertssmnoglu, karolstawowski, kakkokari-gtyih, roth-dev, vinhphm, hogaza, voi-tech, whoisanku, and surfdude29!

Is there a way to make the posts that I see when I am looking at those people I'm following, to come up in 'lates first' or alphabetical, or whatever, and can I Not see the multiple postings of repeated postings?

Can we follow hashtags, edit posts after they've been posted, get a bookmark option and fix the buggy follower count? For some reason the number of followers shown is higher than who actually follow me

Please improve the algorithm, I don’t interact or engage with nsfw posts and am constantly using “show less like this” but still keep getting them shown/suggested😕

You can't merge them, but if you want to associate the "reserved" handle with your main account, you can rename your backup account to something else (or delete it), then do a quick swap to-and-from the bsky.social handle on your main account, and that'll mark your handle as reserved.

Kevin Yap@kevinyap.ca

The Bluesky dev team pushed a change this week to reserve your bsky.social handle when swapping to a custom domain handle, but it isn't retroactive. Can confirm that if you manually made a "squatting" account and go through the flow that @emilyliu.me describes here, it'll re-associate correctly!

There's no way this is being added 5 days after I mentioned wanting it. Best coincidence ever. bsky.app/profile/kyza...

kyza@kyza.net

I wish I could use a domain handle but have an @bsky.social handle as reserve. I have a domain but can't just give up the fancy 4 letter, and if I ever use and lose the domain I wouldn't be able to go back.

To be clear (cc @pfrazee.com ), does this mean that we can access our profile using the reserved bsky.social handle? Is that page effectively a redirect to our custom profile? Since it's not retroactive, I know I'll have to change my username back and forth a couple times.

So, I guess if someone forgets or fails to renew the domain, the previous default username will be used as the fallback, which is great. How often does the system verify that the account owner is still the domain owner? I assume it is done periodically, but I wonder what the frequency is.

For those of us who have already changed our usernames, do we need to change back to a `bsky.social` username and back again to our custom domain, or is this change retroactive?

I suppose it could not be retroactive, because in some cases it would no longer be possible (because that handle might have been taken in the meantime). So, those cases would cause problems.

Can you make it so when I refresh my feed it doesn't go all the way to the newest post, but allows me to continue with the last post I read? Super annoying to have to scroll back down and find where I left off.

Great :) Do you think it would be easier to see if an account is using its own domain? at the moment, it's not very visible. And no, I'm not asking for a blue check ^^.

Quick question, how does this affect users who have a custom domain before this? For example, someone is username squatting on my trademarked name, but you do not yet have any facility to transfer or free up usernames yet.