Bluesky adds group chats but DMs still can't send images
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.
If you're curious about group chats and haven't seen the announcement, check it out here: bsky.app/profile/bsky...
This will be great for all my friends on Blue Sky! Me and everyone I know on Blue Sky:
Please add "search for a string, but only within the people I follow" finally... This is a simple but very useful feature. And overdue.
I'm curious when we'll be getting media support for private messaging. Would be awesome to send photos and video to friends.
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…
Where's the "Edit Post" button?
I won’t be doing that, thank you.
(I have no need to turn myself into a QR code but thanks for the offer!)
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? 😂
I’d rather have the edit button.
me dragging my desktop to people's houses so they can scan the code.
Can you fix alt text please? Like with urgency??
Didn't ask for either of these features either.
Ugh. I avoid QR codes whenever possible. I would, however, like a way to drop unwanted followers….
This release seems to assume I actually have friends ir know anyone IRL I'd want to bring here... 🤔
anything but post editing 😭😭
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
Printing this out and taping it to every outdoor restaurant table
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
Can we have music on our profile page like MySpace?
Wow! That sucks. All we really want is an edit button and a way to remove followers.
Simone’s a fan of Foundation:
Dats fire but when u gonna get rid of the bsky.social in the username??
@bsky.app Why do you continue to ignore Arabic and refuse to support it?
still can't send images or videos in dms :/
Please hire me. I can also ignore users for years, do shit no one is asking for, and break things. DM me
A better use of your time would be an edit facility.
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
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.
This before an edit button is crazy.
“eDIt bUTTon eDIt bUTTon eDIt bUTTon”
Oh hey. We were just talking about you in highbie group chat. Yeah the group chat for high follower count users. We were sending screenshots of—oh lowbies don’t have images in DMs? Huh. Well, what’s important is we all voted you be killed. Yeah Bluesky staff gives us power over life and death haha
Hi lowbie here. I know you literally voted that I be publicly hanged but in the spirit of bipartisanship I thought I’d reach across the aisle and invite u to a highbie lowbie bowling night or maybe we could all dress up in similar outfits for a day that might be funny. Anyway see you around peanut.
bluesky staff would never give trans women power over life and death, out of self-preservation
Wait really? *Finally* Oh shit what time are yall coming by to do it, I’ll make a dip
hey uh, what's the minimum to not be a lowbie? not for qualifying for the chat of one's betters, of course, just for survival purposes
wait I can get better at posting I swear, gimme two weeks to come up with some likes and some discourse generating skeets
Three back-to-back weeks of releases: Standard Site, 10 photos, and Group Chats + Invites. Plus we announced our work on communities. BLUESKY SUMMER OF SHIPPING BAYBEEEE 🫡
I am v tired lol
Ok, so now only e~~~ <gets hit in the head by an atpotato 🥔>
I just now realized maybe you want to get all this out before the world cup starts? Or is it just a coincidence. It would make sense!
yeah but, ___________ and why didn't you ______________ because ___________ ___________ and ___________ fuck sakes, can you guys __________________ _____________ for everyone??
Group chats in DMs are landing at Bluesky as the rollout continues! I received my update today! This will be awesome for event planning and for pals to co-ordinate and chat! We continue to grow as a platform and community! It's been so great to be a part of this with all of you! Happy Friday! 💜🌻🥰
Yes and you can get a QR code on your phone for friends to scan and join they just sent that to me
Yay!! This is really exciting!
Yes!🥰 I saw it yesterday as it popped up on my screen here but then the message disappeared and I didn't know what to do to get back the information!
Why are chat rooms a good thing on this type of platform?