Samuel
are you getting the thing where pressing activity notification push notifications are just opening the app to the home screen without opening the post? if so, are you using ios or android?
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Samuel
this react navigation thing is killing me. why does it take so much memory now :/
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Samuel
ohhhhhh. it’s the pop behaviour change I think. looks like the implicit screen pop behaviour of v6 was accidentally doing garbage collection when you were clicking around the app lmao v7 always adds new screens, so memory use just keeps building
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Samuel
basically turns out the only reason this app ever worked at all was due to completely jank unintentional behaviour lmao. we need to reenable the jank for it not to explode
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Samuel
Oh yeah notifications on Android are now correctly categorised into channels :)
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Samuel
if you use Android, has the new update broken autocapitalisation for you?
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Samuel
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!
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Samuel
this 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! cont.
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
A screenshot demonstrating that you can press the bell icon on a profile to subscribe to push notifications from that user's posts
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Samuel
- 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
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Samuel
don't forget to SMASH that follow button and press the bell icon
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Samuel
why 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?
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Samuel
and by “I” I mean claude will while I’m doing my actually assigned work
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Samuel
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…
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Samuel
existing patterns/conventions/components. like I cba to teach claude what ALF is every day
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Samuel
box model? i reckon i could take on claude in the ring, sure
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Samuel
cooked up a new SegementedControl component. Reanimated layout transitions make this absurdly easy
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Samuel
iOS26’s safari is a scam by Big Ophthalmology to try and trick you into buying a new pair of glasses
Bluesky app but the tabs at the top are slightly blurred by the progressive blur 4 9 114
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