Unofficial Bluesky roadmap

This is a list of all the issues open on the Bluesky app's GitHub repository that have a roadmap-related label.

If you have a bug or feature that you don't see below, check the issue tracker to see if there is already an open issue. If you can't find one, create a new issue if you have a GitHub account, or submit feedback through the Bluesky app.

Discussing

They've seen the request and they're talking about it!

Opened by Bluesky developers

• Alt text button obscures image in feed view
• Show indication of refreshing when using the load latest button (or pressing the tab button to scroll to top)
• [APP-925] QR code generator for sharing profiles (and maybe other links)
• [APP-926] Ensure that the app restores to the reset-password flow from cold start
• [APP-932] Additional requested embed players
• Share invite code as QR

Opened by community member

• Highlight direct replies/mentions in notifications
• Use an off-black background for dark mode and off-white for light mode
• Add ability to add alt text to profile picture
• Add ability to add alt text retroactively
• Replying to older threads should render that reply in the timeline
• "view source" button for custom feeds
• custom feeds: add some kind of dropdown?
• Add location field to profile
• App should persist state when backgrounded and conditionally rehydrate so we can send other apps to foreground for a few mins
• [Android] F-Droid release
• Add toggle for visibility of reposts on profile view.
• Highlights tab on profile
• I can no longer jump post-to-post in my feed with a screen reader (New as of v1.38)
• Add a "don't scroll with load new" option
• A proposal to better utilise feeds, purely in-app
• being able to tag @ mention a feed
• Bluesky Lounges
• Channels: The ability to sort Posts & Reposts into categories (multiple timelines under one account) for users to selectively follow
• Bookmarks/ability to ‘save’ posts
• Make it possible to copy ALT text from an image on mobile
• Counter of how many characters left in profile description field
• Feed generator: link to skyfeed.app
• Ability to remove a follower
• Automatically block bot accounts through a setting in my preferences
• Preview Tab
• Handle-based post/profile links break when handles change
• Feed bar and nav bar should be visible on scroll
• Term "illegal" in the report form needs to be better defined
• Display the number of quote posts under a post
• Move back button inside feed
• [Web App / Share feature]: All URLs should use DID instead of Handle
• Save images to Bluesky folder
• when blocking a user, please implement being able to block the other accounts they make in the future
• Add cashtag support
• Adding a URL for profile tabs (replies, media, lists, feeds)
• Bookmark Folders
• Moments/Status/24-Hour Post
• Feedbacks for thread function
• Don't show zeroes when there's no interaction
• Feedback on Threaded mode
• allow selection of feeds in "show posts from my feeds"
• moderation request - for misleading, fake news, disinformation,
• Automatic deletion of old posts (cleanup)
• Allow reposting with selected account via Quote Post
• Automatic AI based ALT-Text (Accessibility)
• Language settings: let me override it for the accounts I'm following (nice to have)
• App Password usage count and Management
• enhanced profiles with swiping about me section possibly with fontawesome link icons support
• Change reply to quote
• Impersonation warning can be misleading in some contexts
• Make it possible to remove people when replying
• Request : change the CW icon to be less confusing for some people
• Alt Text: Add Char Count, Allow Overflow
• If you have someone blocked or they're blocking you, they don't show up in search results
• Blocked users should still be visible in followers/following lists
• Search in more places (mute lists, followers, following)
• Allow viewing of posts by users you've muted or blocked
• privacy - make following/followers and lists logged in to view (at app level)
• Large numbers of notifications for a single post don't appear to group correctly, and are split across multiple grouped notifications.
• Make app menu available in all views
• Add ability to choose between per-device or per-account filtering settings
• Bsky.app doesnt load (goes blank white)
• Show only subdomain handle for the user whose domain corresponds to the domain of the server
• Feature suggestion - Notification Batching
• Move close picture button to the left
• Can't login to BlueSky due to CORS issue
• request: provide the way to access(view and download) the original image from UI
• Let me remove feeds from the 'Discover new feeds' list
• Link Card images for github gists?
• Ability to hide self from recommended follows
• Embedded Slideshare Viewer
• Add another URL for Tenor embeds?
• Add Content Filtering profiles
• In settings, the "Done" button does nothing useful
• Option to not show replies from particular accounts
• set default values for content warnings
• [Android] Blocked someone via a mod list, but still got a notif of them mentioning me
• reply gate additional feature - limit people who can reply to (only people following account)
• Allow saving specific searches as Custom Feeds (or maybe Personal Feeds)
• Website Url Field In Profile Settings EditProfile.tx
• Notification count on multi-account switcher

Planned

They're on it! These will likely happen in the near term.

Opened by Bluesky developers

• [APP-804] Add a flow for users with an invalid handle
• Autocomplete can trigger in the middle of using the actor typeahead
• [APP-822] Large threads suffer from performance issues
• [APP-839] Image upload failing on ios profile editor (could not compress)
• [APP-841] Excessive app cache size on Android
• [APP-842] Blocked QPs are affecting images as well when rendering EmbedWithMedia
• Notifications don't respect muted threads
• Can't select alt text
• Change how the search tab works
• Add option to disable in-app animations and/or respect OS level settings
• Back button visible on profile tab
• [APP-878] Dont render the PFP or banner image of profiles in <meta> cards when the profile has nsfw labels
• [APP-879] Incorrectly calling expo-camera permissions API on web
• [APP-882] Low end android devices running out of memory
• [APP-883] Copying to clipboard fails in some android web browsers
• [APP-890] Tool to copy alt text
• [APP-892] Al-Jazeera links aren't properly hydrating from CardyB
• [APP-897] Copyright violation reporting flow needs to go to correct page
• [APP-901] Some users get "can't decode bitmap" when attempting to upload an image
• [APP-918] Issues scrolling large threads on android
• RSS polish: path re-visit, in-app link handling
• [APP-920] The heading to the PWI opt out interface is slightly confusing
• [APP-922] Still possible to get an empty feed if you skip onboarding
• [APP-930] Add the ability to unhide a hidden post
• [APP-937] Long initial connect just gives a spinner
• Better handling of failed session resumption
• Disable polling on inactive web tabs
• Embedded players may be defaulting to "off" in some cases
• Duplicates of replies showing in threads

Opened by community member

• Prevent ability to enter an email address as a handle
• Input box for joining waitlist in the android app behaving incorrectly
• Text Breaks in New Post Button on Desktop
• Blue text in many links and buttons does not meet WCAG color contrast standards
• Various purely decorative images should be hidden from screen readers
• Web app is missing page landmarks needed for screen reader navigation
• Can't escape infinite feed on mobile app using only screen reader swipe gestures
• Web app auto logs out while using when switching tabs
• Password autofill disrupted by a change in #539
• Sometimes I cannot navigate to my profile until I reload the page (web)
• Cancel new post dialogue when clicking outside dialogue too
• Resizing the app view/window on android causes a full app restart
• Quotes of Blocked Users Still Appear in App
• Android app should define a font stack
• Changing accounts after visiting own profile tab causes profile tab to always show wrong account
• Current moderation tools make it impossible to report someone once they have blocked you
• Skeets from muted accounts still show up in quote-skeets
• Quote-skeets of blocked accounts show no indication they are QSes
• custom feeds: let me pin a custom feed as the first, default one
• Punycode domains in post URLs render inconsistently
• Deleting posts from profile view doesn't seem to persist
• Add some kind of indication that the custom feed bar is horizontally scrollable
• Flag emoji is broken in profile description
• Add support for hashtags
• tos redirect url ergonomics
• Display the real target host next to the link when the link description doesn't contain the target host
• Quote-posts of posts by muted accounts are themselves muted, as if the quote-poster was muted
• Indicate content from blocked users instead of completely hiding it
• Can't sign into bsky.app because of CORS issue
• Flagged accounts are not indicated as such when their posts are quoted
• Mismatched background on SavedFeeds page
• Duplicate custom algo feed requests on refresh
• UI text cut off unnecessarily
• Alt text is read as "button" by screen reader, not "image" as expected
• Adding Header to Notification Page
• Logged out metadata on posts and profiles is currently broken
• Quick button for NSFW filter on/off
• Using ban list to also include display names and profile bios
• add mute user button to posts
• iOS badge notifications don’t disappear after viewing posts
• Username link isn’t linked on profile bio until page is refreshed.
• Reposts don’t work right away on search
• Forgot password does not send a code
• Image editor: Icons don't show up
• accessibility features for app
• Threads don't open on the right post
• Internal ID versus Semantic Profile url
• Text input: display is cut on RTL character sets
• Synchronize accessibility setting between app and website, don't lose set requirement
• Remove push notification token for signed-out account
• Bug when I link to a search result within bsky
• [Bluesky Web App] Posting links highlights wrong characters/non link text as a link
• Web app displays in mobile view on laptop
• Hovering 'Continue thread' should display a hand cursor
• get the app button does not exist
• Translate button on Android app does not copy text
• Scrolling glitches in the bsky.app web client when viewed in Safari on iPadOS
• Doesn' support drag 'n dropping pictures
• Option to hide interacted content
• Thread Collapsing
• List of subscribed mute lists not scrollable on website
• Odd visual jitter
• Language settings when displaying 'from my feeds'
• Quoting a post with content-filtered images hides the quote's own images behind the same filter
• Screen reader
• Warn on IDNA/Unicode domain confusion
• Typing << or >> In Compose Post Freezes the App
• Bluesky Feed Title has blank space at the end
• Pasting a image url into the iOS composer creates multiple image attachments
• Don't mute notifications from muted following accounts
• Allow more than 8 accounts to be managed in iOS app
• Links to external pages in posts
• Handle at:// URIs in the search field query
• Timestamp Tooltip in Notifications Page obscured
• Replies from blocked accounts appear inconsistently for author
• Post language selection for Cantonese (yue) is inconstent
• Feed name is not displayed in notifications when a user likes it
• Graphic imagery warning coverage is too zealous
• Checkmark Choose Service in the sign into section not aligned vertically
• Tapping back button when seeing profiles doesn't go to previous page but straight to home
• On iOS, when the text in a new post pushes attached imaged below the viewable area, cannot add alt text.
• Flicker while using touch to scroll
• Ending the drag text select outside profile/list edit boxes closes it.
• Two malformed meta tags on posts on web
• "Mute Thread" is platform/session-specific, instead of being tied to the account
• There is no way to unfollow a user if they blocked you
• Crash when pasting _something_ into the post editor (iOS)
• Manga(Comic) readable thread
• Still receiving push notifications for removed account
• Users own posts disappear from users replies when second party blocks user
• Muted threads increase the notification counter in browser
• Can not scroll/navigate in an input field if entering a post on Android Client
• "Appeal content warning" is always displayed in post drop down menu on my posts
• muted users invisible on post statistics
• scrolling/refreshing profile pulls bio section down separately
• Android post composer does not flex properly
• User tagging in replies causes overflow scrollbar jitter in edge cases
• Webapp UX bug / french translation
• Flag emoji not displaying on desktop windows
• On iOS the browsing history is not memorized correctly
• On iOS images stop loading after unfocusing
• False-positive for "You are leaving Bluesky"
• Username with emoji truncated when viewing post
• Content Filtering settings are not saved reliably
• Search history like Twitter (texts and users)
• Media player for Internet Archive
• profile tabs get stuck to the right side of the screen
• [Accessibility] Implement VoiceOver accessibilityCustomActions to provide a more accessible and user-friendly experience when navigating between posts
• Notifications from muted thread
• External link embeds don’t seem to handle unsuccessful responses when crawling
• Jiggling wiggling UI on web
• Pinned feeds: wrong content when switching users
• [Android]: Dropdown menu background color is white in device dark mode

On the roadmap

They're planning to do these, but it may be a while.

Opened by Bluesky developers

• Settings menu dark mode grey "background" is not actually the background
• Improve custom feed UX & discovery
• Use a grid for the media tab, and allow users to pin that as the first tab on their profile

Opened by community member

• Rotate images on mobile.
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Add ability to search for mute lists
• Allow editing of posts
• Data Saver / Explicit Consent Mode
• all platforms: ProfileScreen is missing a mutation / optimistic UI
• Search auto-suggestions and user results are very different
• all platforms: Clicking "Add an account" immediately signs you out even if you don't follow through
• all platforms: float a follow button on Profile
• Pinned posts
• Blocked people are still able to follow and show up in the followers also follower count
• Add option to mute an account for 1/2/4/8 hours
• App registers touches late (lag)
• Prioritise mutuals/following/followers in user search results
• Add Account Creation Date to profile
• See people who follow me and desired user
• Conversations between follows should be treated differently from replies
• A request for more semantic HTML elements
• Alt text composer is difficult to use for users with visual impairments
• require alt-text setting does not sync between iOS app and web
• Add a themed icon (Android 13+)
• ipad/tablet aware interface
• Unmentioning / untagging
• Better (Discord-like) reply presentation in threads
• GIFs
• Audio/Video Post Support
• Give users the ability to manually flag their own posts with content moderation flags
• User-created public and private Lists to curate user experience as well as help build community
• 2-Factor Authentication Support
• OAuth Levels for App Passwords
• Booleanize language filtering by feed
• Dedicated Field for Pronouns in Profile
• Support for notification settings
• adding multiple sites to my account dns verification like a handle (but not alt profiles) for showing up in search.
• Polls
• Keyboard Scrolling
• Ability to hide reposts and quote posts per followed account
• Assistant voice typing features on pixel phones within new post composition screen
• Add support for phrase searching
• Private/Locked accounts
• Faster account switching
• Support for Passkeys
• Option to prevent all pictures from loading automatically
• Offer a PWA
• Add 'Other' Content Category
• Labels - self labeling violence, text posts labels, & appeals process
• Hiding Text Posts Behind a Self Labeled Content Warning
• Double Scrollbar issue on Portrait monitors (Desktop, web app)
• Inconsistent Behavior with Bottom Nav Bar - Desktop Web App - Portrait Monitors
• [Windows PC - Brave] Clicking blank space to the sides of bio navigates away and clears bio
• Wrap unicode flag codepoints in a flag supporting font.
• Set initial alt text from exif data if available
• The ability to create "share on Bluesky"-buttons on websites and blogs
• Settings: content languages list doesn't scroll on android
• Bluesky should support inline translations via DeepL
• Bundle posts by frequent posters somehow
• Going forward and back in the browser loses position in the feed/tab
• include feeds in results when using main search bar - low priority
• Mobile web image carousel navigation arrows cover up content
• Web route history not as robust as mobile app
• Add a mute button beside accounts listed on someones mute feed
• Use Boolean search operators AND and OR
• Allow searching by date range (since: and until:)
• Confirming when opening a link
• Threaded post feature
• Show all images in the preview of a shared link
• PWA: Convert website into a real app.
• Blue Sky's composer should gather social graph data for PDFs and other non-HTML content too
• Add Delay Post=n minutes setting to user settings. The post is visible in the user's client, but delays publishing to AT until n minutes
• Show Recent Searches
• Allow landscape orientation on mobile phone (nice to have)
• Preview vs Source - Image display
• add show more to long posts
• German Translation
• [Android] Blocked users' profile pictures/headers reset to the default
• Following feed is empty
• Hold to share image on iOS
• Possibility to 'collect' posts by theme
• Remove portrait orientation locking from native Android/iOS apps
• Android app will not display at 180 degrees orientation (upside-down)
• Option for notification when a followed user posts
• Muted posts can cause the notifications tab to become empty.
• Group feeds and user lists into categories (possibly with roll-up potential)
• "Blocked post" message should indicate the blocker
• Alt text on pfp picture and banner
• Images expand to only half of the screen when on folding phones, when screen is unfolded
• Add additional content warning for self labeling media - for violent/ bloody
• Muting/blocking users should remove them from feeds immediately
• Account deactivation & reactivation
• IOS PassKey Feature
• from:* search handle autocompletion

Putting off

Issues they can't deal with right now.

Opened by community member

• [Android] Can't swipe to next feed using left gutter of Following
• turning <3 into ❤️ when composing a messsage/post
• Display a quoted post and text of the person who quotes to the reverse.