under the same seed. I’m testing with multiple identities and browsers and thought it was just firefox not showing 2 and 3. I then restored in chrome from seed and found 2 and 3 disappeared in chrome.
PS I tried rolling back to previous browser version but found the same in chrome - seems to have been the ‘restore browser’ operation that caused the change.
That’s correct, to reveal previously purchased IDs after restoring your keychain, you’ll have to manually add them via IDs > More > Create New ID for each Blockstack ID and username you purchased. The wallet generates the addresses deterministically, so they are always the same. We currently have an open issue to improve user experience and avoid confusion:
I have the same problem following a recent update. I have two usernames (shown here: https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/1JUCnD6TTyVwmBPiYRXdcoBRUenYQoQ9hQ). The stefanf28.id one is showing but not my previous default one (stefanferreira.id). I tried the technique above to add new ida. I can add them, but when I try to add a username to the newly added id it says it’s already been taken (which is right, except that it should recognise that it is mine?). There is an option to transfer an ID from OneName but I didn’t purchase mine from OneName as far as I can remember. Does anyone have any advice?
Thanks @yukan - yep, it’s been like that for a while but before the recent update it was showing my default (fully validated) username stefanferreira.id. Now it’s randomly chosen stefanf28.id which I’ve just reserved for future use. You don’t know if there’s a way to force use of the other one instead?
(PS I’ve always been quite confused by the fact they have the same address because I originally purchased the second one using the add id function (which I thought gave a separate address))
Agreed, although it might be better UX to keep a 1 to 1 correspondence between names and addresses. In that case it would be best to transfer one of the names to another address.
Also, I think you ended up with 2 names to 1 address due to an old browser bug where multiple generated ID’s had the same address. This issue has been fixed for a while and no one should be running into the problem going forward.
Yeah that’s partly what I mean by UX improvement. Would love to transfer the name to another ID but I can’t figure out how to do this. When adding a new ID in the browser there’s the option to transfer a name from OneName but I purchased my names via the browser in the first place, not OneName.
And when I just try to add my existing name to a new ID in the browser it says it’s already been taken - i.e. it doesn’t recognise that the ID the name belongs to is already listed in the browser I’m authenticated in, so it doesn’t recognise me as owner of the original name.
So there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to do this unless I’m missing something?