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we're making big moves to make the app better and more performant. soon, we'll be enabling the react native new architecture. want to help us test it out? you now can! iOS: join the TestFlight beta testflight.apple.com/join/UjM5zxM9 Android: use this prerelease APK github.com/bluesky-soci...

github.comRelease v1.128.0 RC 1 (New Arch) · bluesky-social/social-appExperimental New Arch Build This build contains experimental changes to enable the React Native New Architecture. Thank you for helping us test it out! If you find any bugs, please file a GitHub Is...

10/7/26, 2:26 pm42 reposts155 likes

@foxontheinter.net

Can you publish the prerelease APK as a beta on the Play store?

First impressions: it feels great!

Fruity Koala 🎄

@fruitykoala.bsky.social

BlueSky+ you say? 👀

It feels smoother? Can’t have it side by side with the regular app to compare, but there’s some interactions with scrolling and flyovers that immediately “feel better”- but again no way to quantify.

Fruity Koala 🎄

@fruitykoala.bsky.social

Same here. Everything feels slightly quicker with animations and loading but can't confirm without side by sude

Bailey Townsend 🦀

Is a lot smoother (iOS)! Is there a developer option to turn off where a post comes from on the feed by any chance?

not rn, need a better solution for that

@orpach.neocities.org

Feature gates page in the settings, like cope.works has (/settings/cope/feature-gates) maybe.

@advaith.bsky.social

lol we just went through this painful process. hf

Rexo the Trans Bus 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇻🇪

with the caveat that I've been using Canary the whole time, the client info has reported it as being on the new arch for quite a while - was this about switching stable or something?

if you find any bugs, please file it on github using the "fabric/new architecture" template. let us know how you get on!

gabboman the wafrn dev

installing for testing. Also: please add support for the pronouns field you have in the profiles! #it-feels-a-lot-faster-gota-say-that

Fruity Koala 🎄

@fruitykoala.bsky.social

Should we also report bugs through iOS TestFlight?

Oh wow this is a lot faster

android I'm guessing? lmao

this but for android perf

yoooo this is sick and is running super well, good fucking work man love to see it

turns out the easiest way to fix reanimated bugs is to hire software mansion to do it for you ;)

@advaith.bsky.social

this is the way

hahaha i heard through the grapevine you had hired software mansion :) glad it worked out!!

they’ve been great to work with!

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

I may or may not have seen a certain markdown file

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

Aw yisss

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

Will it improve things on the web too?

no

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

Damn

hopped in and it immediately feels a little smoother on iOS? honestly wasn’t expecting that. Also wasn’t expecting the testflight build’s icon to be that off-putting. 😬

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

disturbingly straightforward

why no play store beta thing?

wow attempt #2

attempt… #4 I think?

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦

4th time's the charm

@michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu

🍀

Was it not react native before?

it was. the new architecture is basically the react native team doing a massive rewrite to make it structurally better reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10...

reactnative.devNew Architecture is here · React NativeReact Native 0.76 with the New Architecture by default is now available on npm!

Richard Ferro, MD MSc

Fluttering butterfly wings on refresh maybe? 👀

exciting

@anku.bsky.social

smooth but data loads slower.. probably we're checking smoothness of app right?

@jon.turningfortune.com

Thanks! It seems a lot better in most basic iPad layout situations, but it still doesn’t know what Slide Over is

Natanael, Tech janitor

@natanael.bsky.social

For some reason Android says there's a package conflict 🤷

delete the old app

Natanael, Tech janitor

@natanael.bsky.social

Then I need to redo the ~3 settings that are stored locally and log in again