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v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

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We also added thread numbering: Posts in a thread are numbered automatically, so you don't have to do it yourself. You can turn this on in Settings → Beta Features.

This is great, thank you 😁. Also, please get the app to go back to wherever it was when I switched away, rather than refreshing and showing new posts. That would be lovely thanks ever so much.

Could we get an option to edit posts and increase the character limit on our profile bios? And a way for tags and links to not count towards the character limit on a post?

Yeah I have threaded display turned on so there's already real estate reserved for this label on the left that's just not being used at all.

What I would love is for an option to see comments on threads branching somehow that didn't involve me having to scroll all the way down and then up again to continue reading the thread, losing where I was reading.

Could you fix your Algorithms so that I don't get EVERY post a member I follow has sent me up front - sually upward of 10 consecutive posts!! I've had to block one member already because of filling my home page frequently every time I open my account.

Funny how you can now see posts in order, and are numbered, but you still have to scroll back to get to where you left off. Just spent 2 minutes trying to find the post I last read yesterday

It isn't too helpful when you're scrolling and the numbers only appear if you click on a post. Otherwise, you'd never know it's a thread. I don't usually click on a post unless I'm planning to look at the comments anyway.

As promised when you first announced, I am back to report. I like the thread numbering feature! Very handy when scrolling through a feed to see that someone's post is really just the first part. Thanks for this.

And when are you allowing us to make a single post instead of forcing a careful deliberation to be spread over a dozen posts or more? Numbered or not, threaded posts are awful!

great now can you please for the love of fuck let me untag people when i reply to someone in a reply chain? sometimes i just wanna say something to one person in a conversation without pinging everyone else.

1) This is great, thank you 2) It’ll work even better when it’s in every context of a post, including as a quote. Well, and when it’s on by default so people stop mistreating a post as being a standalone when it’s part of a thread

No, only the main thread of a post by the original author. You can delete and reply again and the numbering still tracks though.

Ideally however I would love for us to have collapsing/expanding posts with a far, far bigger character count so we can say our entire thought without making a thread in the first place

Increasing the post length on Twitter has been a huge step in the wrong direction. Threads of limited character count posts forces people to focus what they are trying to say, that’s a good thing imo.

Word limits have helped me be more concise in what I'm trying to say. This has also carried over into my job. (I will catch myself re-reading to see if I can shorten it even more, sometimes :p)

I wouldn’t mind a small increase but we don’t need hundreds of characters in a single post either. I wouldn’t mind an extra 50 though. Needing to purposely misspell or use less known abbreviations kinda sucks.

I get that but, twitter is a shithole full of fuckwads. Bluesky people always are writing big insightful threads and I'd much prefer to contain big long threads into single posts. It'd be neat if this site got a little more blog-y if people wanted it. I just think it'd help things in context

I agree that forcing people (including myself) to be concise is really helpful. I also enjoy long threads, probably bc my dyslexia isn't as bad when things are chopped up into smaller bits.

Please consider having these come along with quotes, so people can see at a glance that the quotes post is only part of a thread. That could very much limit cherry picking arguments 😌

If you could sort the issue that causes my Android to just log me out randomly and frequently too, that'd be great..

Is there any chance that the final version shows the "1/x" thread count while viewing from a feed instead of needing too click into the thread first to know it's a thread? And some quick testing points to having a branching reply in the thread after the fact be ignored by the count in favor of...

Nice feature. Can I request a review of the 'show more/less like this' feature? Doesn't seem to work, I've classified many posts as 'show less', yet I keep regularly seeing those topics.

I scrolled *all* the comments to get this question answered - thanks so much! For the 2xW, do you know if it includes replies? I.e. is a reply a “repost” or a “post”, in the context of this new feature? I don’t want to miss replies to others’ posts, made by someone that also reposts way too much.

A great feature for people who don't like repost clutter in their feeds. Alas, I unfortunately am the type of person who actually likes reposts since I've personally found them more helpful to share others creativity & be introduced to new things. Still, this'll be helpful for alot of people.

I think this is weird. I have to know who reposts too much? The problem I see is 7 accounts reposting the same thing. My idea: If account X reposts skeet A from account Y and I also follow Y, automatically hide skeet A for me.

Great feature! One follow up suggestion: when viewing a profile, can there be a way to toggle off reposts and see only the original posts? (Unless this is already there and I missed it)

Awesome!! Finally I can stop the barrage of people thinking it's their civic duty to constantly clog my feed daily with reposts of "news" describing a hundred ways the world is falling apart beyond my personal control.

Hi there, is it possible for you to consider bringing the video limit to 10 minutes? Currently I'm on X, but I am liking the look of Bluesky as it resembles old Twitter. Drop me an email to segahoarder@gmail.com Best regards, Andy Stinton

Finally!!!!! Thank you for this BlueSky!!! I had to unfollow so many people because of this, and now this is resolved! 😁

Usually, you'd want to use a fake/sample profile so as not to put anyone on blast unnecessarily. Just one corporate level designer to another. But yeah, neat feature I guess. 🤙🤷‍♂️

Can we get an option to hide repost when viewing a profile. Some people do 100 retpost to 1 post. So trying understand what the post about is impossible.

I'd rather avoid the effect, that I first see "User A reposting Post Q without any extra comment" and when I scroll further down I scroll across Post Q itself. It is very close to a duplication. Too close for me.

Now I want to be able to mute a particular user reposting my reposts. It's not a meaningful interaction: they just agree with the stuff I repost. But I don't want to NOT get notification when the post their own material.

Finally! Thank you! And just to clarify, despite both being created via the same button, "reposts" here are NOT the same as "quote posts," correct? I don't want to have to see zero-effort reposting of someone else's post, but I don't mind seeing what people have to say themselves ABOUT those posts.

By sheer numbers, I'm already missing MILLIONS of different conversations here every day. By being able to curate my feed better to exclude the random empty echoes that I'd likely have no interest in, I can at least focus more on the additive conversations I likely WOULD have an interest in.

All these improvements, but I still need to disable the Autoplay videos and GIFs setting everytime I log in. I have logged this before. Why can't you make this setting persistent?

Could we please get the ability to FOLLOW A POST (i.e., get notified of its replies)? This seems easy to implement and super useful!

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Please, @bsky.app @support.bsky.team, could we have the option to 👉 follow a post 👈 (i.e. receive its replies as notifications) just like we can follow a user? 🙏 It seems both highly logical and super useful (when sbd asks an interesting question). Or is there a workaround that achieves this?

What we want, on top of the nasic issues solved and you to stop your CEO from making this a Twitter's proxy, is to be able to remove followers: not even when blocked they go away, and it is a himdrance. bsky.app/profile/onel...

A Meme Walking By@onelordofthememes.bsky.social

Once again, @toni.bsky.team and @bsky.appl: how do I remove a follower I do not want? Whatever this @libertygirl158.bsky.social is, it shows a total lack of consistency, reason and judgement: no party "marches forward together" other than fascists, like Trump's, Putin's or Xi's. Remove. Not block.

This is a game changer. I want this on ALL of my social medias. Some people are, "Opps! All reposts!", making it near impossible to just follow them. ( If you unfollow my reposts, I take no offense. )

Will this also hide the reposts or their own posts? Think of me reposting myself. Will this be also hidden in feeds or those who enable this feature?

Can we get an option to just check peoples own post without the reposts on their profile? I already had repost disabled in feeds globally. But when I skim a profile to see if I want to follow them for their actual content then it would be nice to also have an option to see it without all the reposts

I think it would be really cool and nice if you allowed the Now Live tab to go past 4 hours :) I stream 6-8hrs and it's annoying to have to manually reset it all the time mid-broadcast.

Does this include self reposts? Have you put the download button back visibly on images? Will images stop glitching and be zoomable instead of getting stuck? Is "hide post" finally account bound and not device bound, which is nonsensical and useless? Have you fixed ALT text from the last fiasco?

That's great, but you may want to fix your verification badge system first. Many people have applied countless times for an Official Verification Badge and never get a response. Never mind that they encourage use of Bluesky more than almost all of those who do have a verification badge.

Not priority on my list, some reposts I appreciate, some I don't. Insensitive numpties who decide that reposting their entire timeline is a good idea just get unfollowed or muted. More characters allowed would be nice. 😁

Yeah but; Sometimes I see a repost that is interesting and I hadn't seen it before. Good. More offten though, I see something over & over because everyone seems to be reposting it. Bad. I occasionally repost something because I feel strongly about it and want to give it emphasis. idk. Sweet & sour?