Implemented bluesky DID/subdomains for heliosphere creators

[sleepybnuuy]

itch.io recently began surfacing users' subdomains to be compatible with bluesky's atproto DID handle resolving - this had me thinking of a similar implementation for heliosphere. while the site currently doesn't have individual subdomains for users' pages (ex. bwuny.heliosphere.app instead of heliosphere.app/user/bwuny), this would be a super cool premium feature depending how feasible it would be to set up the custom subdomains and provide the atproto-did file for bluesky to target. i would personally rock the HS domain in a heartbeat lol



further bluesky handles documentation: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

 

[anna]

I'm curious how that went for them. That post mentions it being experimental, so I'd be curious if there are still users with it besides admins.

That ties into my primary concern: would accounts using this feature be seen as official/staff accounts? It seems like that to me, so I'm not sure. I wonder if any other sites besides itch do this for any user. I've seen plenty do it for employees/admins.

Edit: I also would not want it to be xyz.heliosphere.app, since I actually use subdomains. Could use hsp.re for this purpose or even a new domain.

 

[sleepybnuuy]

yeah, at a glance it still seems implemented and folks do use it on bsky w/o direct affiliation to itch (screenshot from my dashboard)


can definitely understand the afiliation/staff feeling and hadnt considered it at all! i'm not sure of any other Sites proper that offer a handle service like this, outside of specifically tailored bsky domain providers (like etheirys.social which gets used in ff circles)

 

[anna]

I added this with support for subscribers using their vanity URLs as the handle. Vanity URL anna, for example, becomes @anna.heliosphe.re. Note that you have to enable it in the settings.