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Fwiw the sign up/in process for me was "click login, type in my existing blue sky handle, type in my password (into a bsky domain name login prompt), click authorize".

I expect that's the... more optimized flow at this point in this forge's life.

> - why does the auth flow pass me through a new ui/url that seems owned by the project but visually disconnected (eg, different branding/colors for the form)

Probably because of the above, identity isn't tightly associated with the app you're using here so they've stood up their own infra for it but probably not spent too much time on making it good.

> - except you cant actually log in with this username directly

Really? That's strange... I haven't made a native account... what do you need to login with then?

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a "username.tngl.sh" schema, which is that I meant by the unfamiliar protocol in the next bullet
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Oh, that is unfortunate. Bluesky implicitly adds the .bsky.social domain name. Hopefully tangled starts doing the same some day.
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Does it? I just tried logging in without typing the full username and it didn't work.
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Blue sky... Yes, at least for me. I double checked in private browsing before posting that claim.
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Better than my experience with it, just says:

>Failed to complete sign up. Try again later.

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That was my experience too.
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ha, I could not sign in and I already have an Atmosphere account!
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