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Bluesky adds group chats but DMs still can't send images

techJun 11, 20261275,368

Bluesky rolled out a group chat feature while direct messages still cannot send image attachments. Users cannot paste or attach images in DMs, preventing sharing of screenshots, photos, or artwork directly in private conversations. That limitation stops common uses people cite, like commissioning artists who lack external payment pages and privately sending images to locked accounts. Until Bluesky adds image support, the new group chats will be limited for visual sharing and collaboration and feel incomplete for many users.

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Along with group chats, we've rolled out a new way to share your profile and invite friends to find you on Bluesky. Check your profile — you'll see a new share button. You can use this to create a personalized QR code other people can scan to more easily find (and hopefully follow) you.

A demonstration of someone scanning a Bluesky profile QR code.
201045d ago
Bluesky475

If you're curious about group chats and haven't seen the announcement, check it out here: bsky.app/profile/bsky...

UncannyKyle92

This will be great for all my friends on Blue Sky! Me and everyone I know on Blue Sky:

multiburst50

Please add "search for a string, but only within the people I follow" finally... This is a simple but very useful feature. And overdue.

🖤🩶ƬΛЯ🤍💜24

I'm curious when we'll be getting media support for private messaging. Would be awesome to send photos and video to friends.

Jim17

I don’t use BS on iOS. I’m too old w/ fat fingers. What would be nice is an edit button for those fat fingers…

Kami Ⓜ️15

Where's the "Edit Post" button?

JJDiane 🐝13

I won’t be doing that, thank you.

Cindy McCrackan Bluesky Blogger/Dual Citizen/Monotropic Autist8

(I have no need to turn myself into a QR code but thanks for the offer!)

Lewinston (Some Sorta Artist)8

This isn't an opinion that goes one way or another on this new feature but... Bsky users are certainly a curmudgeonly bunch aren't we? 😂

Thede7

I’d rather have the edit button.

Raptor7

me dragging my desktop to people's houses so they can scan the code.

Mx. Fee - FREE LINK7

Can you fix alt text please? Like with urgency??

John Simpson5

Didn't ask for either of these features either.

ZephDrouhin5

Ugh. I avoid QR codes whenever possible. I would, however, like a way to drop unwanted followers….

Franck5

This release seems to assume I actually have friends ir know anyone IRL I'd want to bring here... 🤔

Evilrayquaza4

anything but post editing 😭😭

MAZZ - 0/10 would not recommend4

EDIT POST BUTTON PLEASE not letting us edit posts sucks. i have a learning disability and screw up a lot when i type and would like to be able to fix it

Kiefer Pseudonym3

Printing this out and taping it to every outdoor restaurant table

7L3E1T2

Oh wonderful another way to turn my personal identity into a scannable QR code that people can hover their phones over in crowded rooms Just scan me to follow! Now I just need to figure out how to get my face printed on a t-shirt so I don't have to carry my phone anymore

Rarian Rakista2

Can we have music on our profile page like MySpace?

Botticellibelle2

Wow! That sucks. All we really want is an edit button and a way to remove followers.

Naught2

Simone’s a fan of Foundation:

.2

Dats fire but when u gonna get rid of the bsky.social in the username??

Ahmed2

@bsky.app Why do you continue to ignore Arabic and refuse to support it?

That One Silly Gay Toaster Kiwi Flavored Faggot Guy :32

still can't send images or videos in dms :/

Nick James the 1st 🛸⚒️🍄2

Please hire me. I can also ignore users for years, do shit no one is asking for, and break things. DM me

Grumpy Middle Aged White Guy2

A better use of your time would be an edit facility.

Grumpy Middle Aged White Guy2

Unless you happen to be in the UK, in which case Bluesky kowtows to our surveillance state and prevents us from using the messenger facility without providing private and sensitive ID as age verification,which isn’t even required by the Online Safety Act. You’ve got no bragging rights, @bsky.app

The Backlist Book 🇨🇦 🍁2

Personally, I won't use either of these. QR codes become unstable if the security is not regularly updated. prone to hacking. and group chats, really? did anybody actually ask for that? this isn't MSN messenger.

Patrick Coyne 👾2

This before an edit button is crazy.

—>realhackhistory.org2

“eDIt bUTTon eDIt bUTTon eDIt bUTTon”