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Yay! 🎉

Sorry about that, should be working now

Has the file size limit changed or it's still 300 mb?

Hashtags!!!

Great news. Can you fix trending terms? You had this earlier for a LONG time as voter suppression & disinformation as a trending term during voting when no counting was done 1. Farage wins Clacton seat Count Binface also stood; Reform UK's biggest donor faces scrutiny over Kremlin ties. 1.4K posts

Thanks for the latest updates, Alex. Great work from the team. 🙏 And speaking about videos, I hope someday the issue of video and audio getting out of sync after using the time bar gets fixed. 😢 It's a bit annoying.

Stitch that... it worked! 😁

That should be long enough to make decent podcasts and not just excerpts! Instead of microblogging it would be microcasting! SkyPods? BlueCasts? 🤔

not currently — some other apps already handle this well

hell yes!

Is the video player always going to suck this badly? Will it ever get speed adjustment on desktop? Will the av sync issues ever get resolved?

Just tried it - working well, thanks.

It won’t let me do 8:10 video

Took few minutes

neato! any hopes for getting photo uploads less crunchy again?

Yay! Can I have 60fps too? Please please please… 😀

Do you still have to keep the app open in the foreground while media uploads? Or is it finally fixed so uploads can happen in the background while using the phone to do other stuff? This is a continual frustration when trying to post while traveling, though more commonly with photos than video.

not yet but the foundation is there, would love to do it soon

Where are the ones that say "no, Jerry" and tell Jerry to stop selling misinformation/disinformation? 😉 @jcsalterego.bsky.social

Be nice if it didn't take ten hours for an uploaded photo to be visible ... a recent issue not isolated to myself! What the heck happen there?

The cdn already supports it. If you use the witchsky.app client, you can pick any supported format to use. In Settings > Runes > Display there's three drop down menus. jpegxl still isn't as widely supported as webp right now, so I don't think it's a good idea to make it the default.

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That’s what I’m talking about!!! My last blog post on the matter is now a tiny bit outdated now.

what kind of video file are you trying to upload? are you on iOS or Android?

not an immediate priority but good to know there's some demand

Any chance we get the app to stop playing videos once you tap on the X and return to the feed? That would be GREAT!

that's amazing news bc I genuinely can't wrap my head around it. I don't think I've ever seen any app do video uploads this fast. IG & TikTok just have uploads happen in the background bc they take ~a minute, and they only have one source of truth whereas you have to upload to both the pds and cdn.

i thought they were already using nvenc but glad to see they are now

At a high level we... - Optimized client compression - Moved clients to a new multipart upload architecture - Refactored backend video encoding to run on GPUs - Optimized our encoding steps - Migrated video backend to new hardware - Fixed PDS uploadBlob performance and reliability issues and more!

great question- this one is going to take more lifting to get right so it’s not in this round of video updates but it is definitely being / has been considered

they want to court journalists, or they don't. i don't make money off it either way, so i'm fine not posting videos with breaking news here.

ok verified, we haven't added better support for the "uploading a video while app is backgrounded" case, though it should upload much faster now while the app is in the foreground. good to know this is a need though. i've shared it with the team

@scootercaster.com yooooo

longer videos 😍😍😍😍😍😍

What’s the file size limit now?