Accessing blog view when custom homepage is installed

I might have missed something, but if I install a custom homepage, how do I have the former front page still accessible?
I can access archives through category view, or assign all posts to a category and view that category as a new item, but it seems like it would be the simplest approach to have / as a homepage, and then some other design designator since the custom homepage is replacing the blog view / . Something like /blog or /posts.
The workaround will do for now, assigning through an auto filter, all short posts and all long posts to a blog category, but I wonder if there is a more straightforward link already existing