(for those that don't know, turns out deleting an account just does that - bsky doesn't store blobs on the filesystem so it was code that only affected self hosters)
Not a bug but it's hard to know how many latest followers I got since last checked. They get combined in the notifications. Not a big deal and I would probably care less down the road but since I'm new and most of my followers are new, I want to check their profiles to see if I want to follow them.
Open the app, you need to login (despite being logged in), close the app (without logging in) and open it again, things are back to normal and you are already logged in. Have noticed that a couple times in the last week.
I can't seem to go to the start or end of videos on Android Chrome. Seems like there's some interference with other drag targets or some such. So I miss the first 3-6s of every video.
Least favorite: that sometimes at random you can’t add a user to a starter pack. Seems to be folks with bsky handles and relatively new (within the last few days) accounts.
Not sure if it's a bug, but the fact that while you can zoom photos in Android they don't change orientation if you rotate your phone. Not a problem with videos.
I just found an interesting one. Sharing a news article from Apple News only results in a post where the article title is populated but no link. I’m not 100% if this is on Apple though.
The one where sometimes you tap on a post and it tries to load the replies, but just spins for minutes. If you go back and try again it still does the same. Go back and try another post, same thing. Eventually it times out and everything is fine. Otherwise force kill the app and it's fine afterwards
right now it’s that my discover feed only shows a couple of posts on a refresh, and sometimes it doesn’t show any at all?
(i found your post on reddit and i think it’s really cool that y’all are so involved with the user experience among this influx of people btw!)
here’s a screen recording of the type of thing going on! i didn’t manage to get it to show the message i was getting about there being no posts available, but if i get it again i will screenshot it. i have been hitting “show less of this” a lot today, maybe I’ve just gone too hard on that? 😂
also not a bug but i don't understand why i have to choose between uploading an image or uploading a video instead of a single "upload media" button. felt a bit lost when trying to upload this video clip and wrongly pressed the upload image button.
Clicking an image from someone's post, and then swiping back (on my Android phone at least), navigates away from Bluesky. On the other site the "back" gesture dismisses the image modal.
If you select ‘see all posts from user,’ for a hashtag, then use the share option in the top right corner to create a link to everything they’ve said on the topic,
The link and link card look correct, but get truncated when a user selects it in-app. The link works, outside of bluesky
Not sure if it's a bug or intentional but I hate that when I switch feeds the scroll position remains the same. Even if it's my first time loading that feed since my last page refresh.
That there aren't follow/unfollow buttons on the users of a list like there are on starter packs. Perhaps a feature or as intended. But I thought they were there before I pinned it - fussy memory though.
Sorry, terrible bug report! Android 14, pixel 6a. Though I just realised I hadn't updated the app. I've updated now, will report back if I encounter it again
Dragging the screen to refresh my profile. Accidentally have touch start triggered on a bio link - opens the link after touch end even though my finger is not on the link anymore
I think you're showing some variation of one I reported first day? The post input text offsets/clips when it doesn't have to? Here just the difference between 2 and 3 lines clips half the entire line with plenty of room below:
I see it almost all the time when typing posts but depending on the text it either persists as I continue to type, or it hops momentarily (which doesn't come across in screen recordings)
I would move the splash outside the react root, remove the spinner state, and hide the splash when the initial shell commits with the suspense fallback glimmer
on firefox on an iphone, you have to do a little scrolling before the app will let you use the bottom nav bar. i’d you click on a nav element directly after page load, it will be as if you clicked the post currently behind the bar.
Not sure if it’s a bug or feature. Click on notifications, click on a notification to bring you to their profile. Upper left has the back arrow. Scroll down to check out their posts, arrow is gone. You have to scroll at the way back up to go back. I know I could click home, just like the arrow.
if you have a @ handle in your bio that doesn't exist, it causes your profile page to hang for a few seconds (i had to put a space between @ and https://rdg.ac.uk to speed up my profile)
Yes. Sorry forgot to mention, I believe you can reproduce this by change device orientation while in full-screen video then back to previous screen. I am on iOS 18.1 if that helps.
On mobile swiping down to close out of a picture requires a lot further travel than swiping up, sometimes it's almost impossible depending on the aspect ratio of the image.
Other apps have trained me to swipe down lest I be served Unrelated Content, so it's a hard habit to break vs swiping up.
When you are editing the description of a moderation list on the web, if you click and drag to select text and your cursor moves off the edge of the modal it closes the modal
Everything seems to have translations for the OS locale but the tabs labels, not being the case when tabs are referenced in other places across the UI (Android).
Sometimes after watching a video or an image, when I go back to the timeline something overflows and changes the layout to the right, hiding the pfps of people. If I navigate back and forth it resets lol
The chat input on DMs will occasionally do odd behavior. Sometimes I open a DM and it’s already in the middle of the screen. Other times I go to type and the input stays stuck at the bottom as the keyboard goes over it.
Oh of course, forgot I’d enabled that feature. My opinion is “Twitter with the good discussion UX of reddit” is the way to go, but I really don’t envy supporting 2 views right now
Seeing content for the same post many times in my Friends and Discover feeds
(I’ll see a quote post of a post, and then the original post nearby, and then a reply to the original post without any context attached and I tap in and see the original post)
I honestly don’t think I’ve experienced any yet. There are maybe some higher friction UI choices here and there. Some features from other platforms that I miss. Lack of native apps for iPads, etc.
Rotating my Android device (portrait->landscape v.v.) (Lenovo tablet) somehow resets/restarts the app. Very irritating if you put your device away for a few seconds. To reproduce: change device setting to auto-rotate, start scrolling a feed, rotate the device. (Thanks for all the magic work you do!)
The kerning or glyph alignment on android seem very weird... like it's trying to do semi-justified or the font is just broken. Awkward spacing of letters. Not really a favorite bug but maybe if someone else experiences the same thing then maybe someone can take a look.
Not quite a bug maybe but the thing where it asks for permissions to the photo library instead of using the out of process picker. Threads does this too and it's annoying, Ivory thankfully gets it right
Huh interesting. I had denied permission previously and so it just keep asking for it again and again. I’ve now enabled limited access and selected nothing, and it does open the system picker. Very odd
just submitted these but when you exit the translate browser thingy, the app does not return you to where you were. if you’re in a skeet in a List, you get dumped back to a feed. if you’re in a skeet in a feed, you get returned to top of the feed.
Not a bug (and not my favorite) but something I noticed today
I came across a hellpost that was super annoying to scroll through in app. I would’ve loved to click the tree dots to mute the thread without scrolling. However the three dots are at the bottom of the post and have to be scrolled to.
More of a UX issue but, all banners on the profile page appear over the back button. So if you follow or block somebody or something, can’t go back for a couple seconds. Unless you touch through it, which also works.
I guess this is more of a feature request, but coming from twitter it feels like a bug. Tw is really good at keeping scroll position in the feed through sessions, so I can continue where I left off. Bsky just resets to the top most times.
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every time i open this app— takes almost 1 sec to open, kinda freaks me out.
i open this app almost 50+ times a day and it compounds. lots of second wasted.
details: using iPhone 15+ , iOS 18.1 and even app is updated.
When swiping up/down, if I happen to start the swipe over the 'new post' or 'back to top' buttons, it will only interpret left/right swipes. I hold my phone in one hand and swipe with my thumb so I accidentally change feeds fairly often.
Not sure if a bug per se but it would be great if YouTube Music links showed the correct thumbnail in posts. I'll wager sharing Spotify links works as expected...
Clicking "Translate" will open the translation in a new tab (which is fine) but meanwhile bluesky will navigate back to the home feed for some reason? It won't stay on the, err, "skeet"?
if you're in the middle of a post and you accidentally hit the back button in your web browser, there's no prompt to discard your draft and you lose everything 🫠
for a long time it was NaN showing in place of the "also followed by" number. every time I saw "und NaN andere" I would laugh. seems maybe fixed recently though
- it's hard to reproduce, but sometimes the app just doesn't respond to taps. you can still scroll around and change tabs but can't expand any posts or notifications. (android 14, pixel 7)
- back button often goes to the wrong place, losing parts of the history stack. (web)
Probably not being able to swipe down an enlarged image for closing it if I move my finger too slow. Seems like the condition only checks for swipe velocity and not for the distance it was dragged. Happens pretty often to me, not sure if I move my finger slower than other people 😄
I get a notification (follower, DM, mention, etc) and opening the notification just takes me to the app (sometimes even reloading) and not to the actual notification I've selected
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I know, not really a bug, but user sign up ux could use some attention.
fat coffee. uploading images doesnt seem to do this
https://bsky.app/profile/bmuenzenmeyer.bsky.social/post/3latbqqqiac2w
* now if they have quoted someone, try hovering over the name in the quote... no popup
I would want the quote popup, so that I can follow them
https://bsky.app/profile/trozee.bsky.social/post/3latp7endes2o
I should dance, and I stand instead
see here: https://bsky.app/profile/miikiidotdev.bsky.social/post/3lapxtl5etk24
Post used to do that, too. It's frustrating. But at least here, the feed doesn't scramble itself, so you can find your place again.
Switching apps.
Coming back and automatically got navigated out of the thread to my feed.
iPhone 14
(i found your post on reddit and i think it’s really cool that y’all are so involved with the user experience among this influx of people btw!)
Might not be a bug though!
Contrast is super low at the moment, which is why it feels like a bug.
Closing and reopening the keyboard fixes it.
If you select ‘see all posts from user,’ for a hashtag, then use the share option in the top right corner to create a link to everything they’ve said on the topic,
The link and link card look correct, but get truncated when a user selects it in-app. The link works, outside of bluesky
Also, sometimes it gets stuck in portrait mode, but after clicking on replies or images it gets stuck in landscape.
(on desktop web)
Slow Deep linking
Sometimes it also happens with people's names in posts.
- view your profile
- see new and old name
normalized stores amirite
Other apps have trained me to swipe down lest I be served Unrelated Content, so it's a hard habit to break vs swiping up.
Sometimes this manifests as the scroll stopping then I have to do a second swipe. Other times it stops the inertia for a moment before continuing.
But either way, I should be able to swipe back without first having to stop the inertia.
Entirely possible this is a RN ScrollView bug rather than Bsky.
But it definitely makes the app feel less responsive than Hellsite.
Yep, sure is.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/2919
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/issues/2920
It's funny to see @hindra.bsky.social frustrated when replying to my post 🤣🤣
(I’ll see a quote post of a post, and then the original post nearby, and then a reply to the original post without any context attached and I tap in and see the original post)
They’re more timeline bugs than app though
Bugs? Not yet.
And only on profile section, on feeds everything is fine
https://media.tenor.com/a7dAKmo8VagAAAAC/gay-lesbian.gif?hh=1000&ww=230
hh query param to 29000000 etc is especially cursed
I came across a hellpost that was super annoying to scroll through in app. I would’ve loved to click the tree dots to mute the thread without scrolling. However the three dots are at the bottom of the post and have to be scrolled to.
Maybe this is a feature to keep stuff like current message draft, but it feels weird.
every time i open this app— takes almost 1 sec to open, kinda freaks me out.
i open this app almost 50+ times a day and it compounds. lots of second wasted.
details: using iPhone 15+ , iOS 18.1 and even app is updated.
However, I've not experienced it since the 1.92.1 update.
https://bsky.app/profile/layeredstrange.uk/post/3l5ukf3r6j72a
I think this was a change in the last few days.
https://bsky.app/profile/ajames.dev/post/3lak5hbhjkx2n
- back button often goes to the wrong place, losing parts of the history stack. (web)
trying out a blocklist then the account that owns it gets immediately suspended
you're stuck blocking forever. turns out there's besties on the list. neat
https://bsky.app/profile/satrinawuff.bsky.social/post/3lboleqjxb22l
i've had to disable the apps access to mobile data to prevent this
like wtf how are you doing this
Android. v1.93.0