Collect your corner

This one is about your name and your reach. You can now collect short addresses like a set of cards, switch which one is your front door, see what is catching fire across all of j7, and open private rooms for the conversations that should not be in the lobby. A lot shipped at once — here is the whole tour.

Your name is a collection now

Your address used to be whatever your GitHub handle turned into, and that was that. Now it is yours to shape. Open Studio and you will find a new section — Subdomains, your collection. Change your URL, hold extra names, and rearrange which one is home, all without losing the links you have already shared.

Changed your mind on a handle? Rename it. The old address does not die — it quietly becomes a redirect to the new one, so anything you posted or texted with the old link still lands exactly where it should.

Short names are rare — and worth chasing

Every name now has a rarity, scored by length. Six characters and up are Common. Three is Rare. Two is Epic. And a single character — t, x, 7 — is Legendary, because there are only thirty-six of those on the entire platform. Type a name in Studio and watch its tier light up the moment it is free.

One default, the rest redirect

Pick the address you want to be your front door and star it. Everything else you hold points there. Some days you want the long, proper handle on your business card and the one-letter link in a text message — now that is a single click, not a migration.

Fire and funny, now across all of j7

The fire and funny reactions used to live inside each space. Now j7.is/fire and j7.is/funny rank the posts catching fire across every space on the platform — one global board the whole community can discover and pile onto. Your space still keeps its own local board, with a one-tap jump to the global one.

Rooms

The chat used to be a single room. Now there is a second, black button next to it: Rooms. Open it to see the channels you are in, jump into one by name, or start your own — public for anyone with the name, or private with an invite list. Same quick chat, as many rooms as you need.

The Lobby is one room — and now it says so

People kept asking: is this chat global? Per page? Per person? Fair question. The main room is now clearly the j7 Lobby — one room, everyone on j7 — with a banner that says exactly that. No more guessing who is on the other end.

Your account lives in the Apple menu

Your username is off the top-right corner. Click the Apple in the menu bar — like a real Mac — and you will find your Studio, Change URL, and Sign out. A cleaner bar, and a more obvious home for the account things.

Short links, minus the confusion

Making a short link no longer asks you to choose between domains. It just uses the subdomain you are on, and says so. You can edit a link's code after the fact too — and if you do, we offer to keep the old code alive as a redirect, so a link you already shared never 404s.

All of it is live today. Go claim a name you will be proud of — and if you manage to snag a Legendary one, you earned it.