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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon bluesky-social

Account mentions link to did profile URL

Open fenarinarsa opened this issue 11 months ago • 2 comments

Describe the bug

When clicking on a handle (@) in a post on the web version, we're taken to a profile URL looking like https://bsky.app/profile/did:... instead of the previous behavior https://bsky.app/profile/accounthandle

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3knoqqvusbc2x
  2. Click on the @ mention
  3. Check the displayed URL: it's https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:linrigsaay5zenhg756ca6tg

Expected behavior

We should be taken to https://bsky.app/profile/matthieu.bsky.team

Details

  • Platform: Desktop
  • Platform version: Firefox 124.0, Windows 11
  • App version: 1.75.0

fenarinarsa avatar Mar 22 '24 23:03 fenarinarsa

I think this behaviour might be by design, because by making the link point to the DID it means that links to profiles don't break if someone changes their handle.

surfdude29 avatar Mar 23 '24 21:03 surfdude29