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if you had a "beta features" toggle in your settings that let you see experimental and pre-release features in the app so you could share feedback with the bsky team, would you turn it on?

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maybe but will the team actually make decisions on those? mergefeed setting has been experimental for years and it’s still there. the team seems afraid to rip it out but also seems unwilling to invest in it (maybe it being an option takes the pressure off). don’t want a graveyard of beta options

Yes, ideally with toggles for featuregates. (I never get them, since one of my ublock origin lists blocks it) I meant to mention during the image carousel rollout, a "next.bsky.app" subdomain or something that's the upcoming version would be useful so people don't have to grab it from github.

As long as the team wasn't overwhelmed with feedback and didn't address the issues, sure. Things like video skip on uploads is still an ongoing, unaddressed issue in the live platform, so beta fixes based on feedback are even more suspect.

What if instead you followed a bsky.beta account and their posts included the features (wouldn't work for all features). I always forget to check settings and forget to turn them off, but would love to try new stuff

Absolutely, would love that. :) I think it would bring home how openly the app is developed, for people who don’t follow the github updates.