the likes-of-reposts thing is all on protocol btw!! Likes and reposts now have a “via” field that points at the repost record
Hoping to see some cool visualisations and stuff!
6 22 147this also has like a billion minor things we’ve been working on, such as
- threaded replies redesign (rolling out in the coming days)
- upgraded React Native from like 3 versions ago to latest
- upgraded navigation - @danabra.mov your PR for the back gesture shadow from last year made it in!
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Bluesky@bsky.app· 7 Jul 2025📢 1.104 is rolling out with new ways to personalize your notifications!
• Activity Notifications: Get push alerts from your favorite accounts
• Repost Notifications: See when someone likes or reposts something you’ve reposted
• New Notification Settings: Fine-tune which notifications you receive
- we were soooo close to getting RN new arch enabled, we’re a bug fix or two away
- iOS video player no longer stops playing prematurely
- composer font size is no longer massive
- probably a million more things I’ve forgotten
3 5 66why are we getting so many PRs for typos all of a sudden
I’d understand in-app typos, or in the readme, but people are fixing like random source code comment typos
is it to try and get contributor status on the repo?
19 6 109decided next week I will tackle multi-player recycling + preloading so we can get rid of that stupid spinner
Samuel@samuel.fm· 5 Jul 2025we did it everyone
I find claude/all ai tools are so much better at the native code stuff than the React Native stuff because the native modules are strictly scoped down, usually only a handful of files, and fairly conventional. the React Native app is enormous enough that it can’t understand our…
1 1 13existing patterns/conventions/components. like I cba to teach claude what ALF is every day
1 1 11we did it everyone
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 3 Jul 2025Sam just made a PR to actually fix this. I haven’t tested yet but maybe?? Ty Sam What a roller coaster
thanks @hirbod.dev for fixing the bug where sometimes videos on Android would have the wrong aspect ratio!
[image-picker][android] fix: Adjust video metadata extraction to account for rotation by hirbod · Pull Request #37849 · expo/expo
Why
MediaMetadataRetriever reports the encoded frame size, which is often landscape (e.g. 1920 × 1080) even for portrait clips that are meant to be displayed with a 90°/270° rotation flag.
iOS, on...
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cooked up a new SegementedControl component. Reanimated layout transitions make this absurdly easy
5 5 99everybody say “thank you claude”
skywatch@skywatch.bsky.social· 3 Jul 2025
Fix iOS video visibility/early destroy issue by mozzius · Pull Request #15 · bluesky-social/bluesky-video
Basically we use a new algorithm for selecting the active video
We now calculate the % visibility of each video
Video with highest visibility percentage is picked
Tie-breaking by position - when v...
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iOS26’s safari is a scam by Big Ophthalmology to try and trick you into buying a new pair of glasses
4 9 114this may be controversial but I made the composer font size match what posts are. are you gonna be mad at me for this one
20 5 140turns out you guys were right to be really annoyingly persistent about asking for this feature, it actually slaps
13 3 107made my first contribution to the bluesky docs: how to upload video docs.bsky.app/docs/tutoria...
Uploading Video | Bluesky
Video uploads differ slightly from image uploads, since they are typically much larger files and have a significantly long processing time.
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instead of backfilling an appview, why not just replay it at real time speed from 2023. see the greatest hits as they happen
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