📢 Version 1.51 has a bunch of big updates!
• The icon for the feeds tab is now a hashtag, and the tab lists saved feeds and suggests new feeds.
• On Web desktop, your pinned feeds are now in the right sidebar.
(We're working on hashtags too, so consider this a teaser!)
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• Opt-in experimental feature #1 🧪: Weave posts from saved feeds into your follows by toggling on Settings > Home Feed Preferences > Show Posts From My Feeds. Let us know what you think!
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• Only show replies from people you follow by toggling on Settings > Home Feed Preferences > Reply Filters > Followed Users Only.
• Control the sort order of replies via Settings > Thread Preferences: oldest, newest, most-liked, or random!
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• Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!
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General Updates:
• After following a user, you will now get some additional suggested follows.
• User display names can no longer move around in the UI by using RTL control codes.
• Post controls (like, repost, etc) should now be easier to tap.
📢 1.51 (cont.)
• Some improvements to the language settings.
• Some accessibility improvements.
• Some improvements to the image viewer zoom behaviors.
• Middle clicking on web *should* work now to open posts.
• Fixed an issue where some browsers failed to save your birthday.
Thank you!! Still waiting and hoping for a mutual block feature - as a safety issue, if someone blocks me first I can’t block them, but then they have the ability to unblock and view my content at their discretion.
I'd still like to see an update that holds my place in my feed for the next time I open the app. It's annoying to have to scroll down to find the oldest post I haven't read yet. Otherwise, really enjoying this app. I'm relatively new here.
I hope your team might consider adding share from long press on links in mobile apps. There are times, e.g., folks post links to articles that I want save to Pocket to read later when I have time.
Thank you so much for working so hard to make improvements. I've only been on Bluesky for about a week since an old follower from The Platform That Shall Not Be Named sent me an invite code. That hellscape is in my rear view mirror
My only issue w threaded view is that this thread doesn't appear properly chained from the 1st skeet vs the last skeet.
Otherwise, thanks for making this app wayyyy more usable w these new features!!!
Do you think Jack could afford to offer video sometime before 2010? Oh wait it’s 2023 😂
Honestly though thanks for posting the changes like this, and keep ‘em coming!