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📢v1.8 is now on the App Store! The big update is there’s now a feed selector that includes your following feed and a “what’s hot” discovery feed. This is testing out part of the app that will eventually be: custom algorithms! More details…🧵

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The search page is now exclusively giving account recommendations when there’s no active search, and it draws from your network to give those recommendations. (This too will eventually be handled by custom algorithms.) 🧵

Let us know what you think about the feed selector. We decided to stick it down in thumb range so that it was super easy to reach, because we think custom feeds are an important part of the app. But we’re open to suggestions if that’s not vibing right🧵

Bottom feels odd despite being where my fingers lay, it’s because my eyes have been trained to look at the top of the screen for it in the past.

Scrolling left and right to toggle is great! It being placed at the bottom left is a bit weird, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s missed if people aren’t explicitly looking for it. Maybe a toggle on top instead?

One other note: “What’s hot” is currently English only but I’m going to get it working for other languages ASAP and give y’all control over that, defaulting to your device language. As always, feedback welcome and enjoy!

I think because you have the swipe gestures, top would be more aesthetically pleasing. Bottom looks odd and cramps the menu. Also, centered.

I’m a gesture guy so up top, down in thumb range, doesn’t matter as long as swiping over still gets to it ~ for me. Happy to see a feed selector. Eagerly waiting search but stoked with this update. Thank you!!

I don’t mind it at the bottom, and doesn’t feel cluttered (yet?). Really loving how clean the feed is, both in layout and… no bots, no trolls, no spammy ads. It’s such a relief. Appreciating the heck out of this while we have it. Ah, That new app smell.💜

Much needed additions, Ty. I see that the updates tab in the App Store has disappeared. Now I have to manually search for bluesky to force it to update. Or am I missing something?

I had to pull down to get the updates list to refresh which I don’t think I’ve ever though to do on that screen before. Might help people get it faster if they thought that screen was as up to date as possible already.

I do have a suggestion search has some much potential , maybe categories like Music, News, Sports for each topic would be pretty dope idea! Each topic or post could be under that category

I’m loving the what’s new discovery feed and the who to follow in search :) great additions to the app each update continue to get better and better you guys are on fire!!

Can we leverage custom emoji reactions for dynamic feeds? ❤️is “What’s loved”,🔥is “What’s hot”, 🍔 “What’s cooking”, etc