Social community Bluesky has launched a brand new replace to its app that features a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections in opposition to username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting.
The corporate introduced that it’s including a brand new mentions tab with the v1.96 rollout to allow you to see these posts individually. Till now, all notifications had been beneath one tab.
Bluesky can also be including safety in opposition to username squatting by reserving your unique Bluesky username with (.bsky.social suffix) while you change your username to a customized area. The platform stated it solely reserves the latest Bluesky username, and it doesn’t expire.
A recent incident has proven that the corporate has confronted issues with impersonation when individuals purchase up domains and reserve usernames with the names of identified individuals who won’t be on the platform but. Individuals additionally used to create a separate account whereas switching to a customized area to forestall somebody from taking their unique Bluesky username.
Bluesky can also be including a solution to show replies beneath a submit. Customers can select between linear and threaded views. They will additionally type replies utilizing completely different filters like scorching, oldest, latest, most-liked, and random.
The social community, which has crossed 25 million users, can also be including new translation language assist for Nepali, Khmer, and Romanian.
