Also included in this release: scrolling the feed should feel snappier on Android. Thanks to GitHub user zetavg for contributing the fix! 🙏

By default, only people you follow can message you. You can change this to everyone or no one in your DM settings.

Read more about how to use DMs, privacy and safety, and planned improvements in this blog post:

📢 1.84 is rolling out now (4/4)

As always, we’d like to thank our GitHub contributors tkusano, Hima-Zinn, hibiki, auroursa, KuwaLee, cirx1e, quiple, ivanbea, surfdude29, kodebanget, danninov, mhmmdiqbal19, poteto, and zetavg!

📢 1.84 is rolling out now (3/4)
3️⃣ App passwords can now be created with "Access to DMs" privileges, if needed. This is useful for using a third-party client with DMs, like @skeetdeck.bsky.social !

📢 1.85 is rolling out now (3/6)

Account deactivation!

You can now temporarily deactivate your account. This will take down the profile and all of your content until you decide to resume — which you can do at any time.

(You can find this in your Settings page.)

📢 1.85 is rolling out now (2/6)

UI improvements! We’ve been tuning the UI to make it feel better and improve clarity.

✨ We updated the icons on posts.
✨ We improved the post composer on mobile.
✨ Labels on posts now use the avatar of the labeler, making them much visually shorter.

📢 1.86 is rolling out now (5/5)

As always, we’d like to thank our GitHub contributors marcomaroni-github, surfdude29, Signez, quiple, kscanne, Donncha King, Aonghuso, oracularhades, and frncs-eu.

📢 1.86 is rolling out now (4/5)

Also:
• It should now be easier to delete DM conversations from deleted accounts
• Multiple bugfixes to notifications and the keyboard input
• Fix to Indonesian language detection

To learn more about starter packs and how to use them, read our blog post here:

bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Most importantly, share your starter pack! Send a text to your friends or share a link with your professional network.

Every starter pack comes with a link, QR code, and preview image. Here’s an example:

go.bsky.app/ATJ2XJT

📢 1.87 is rolling out now (4/4)

As always, we’d like to thank our GitHub contributors surfdude29, Signez, ivanbea, tkusano, KuwaLee, mary-ext, boly38, Zero3K, quiple, middlingphys, hibiki, Hima-Zinn, dolciss, marcomaroni-github, auroursa, and jgarplind

📢 1.87 is rolling out now (3/4)

Also:

• Explore page now includes suggested feeds, and search now searches for feeds.
• Added an option to show larger "alt text" indicators on images.
• GIFs now show correctly in notifications.
• You can now subscribe to 20 labelers.

📢 1.87 is rolling out now (3/3)

As always, we’d like to thank our GitHub contributors jgarplind, oracularhades, surfdude29, tkusano, dolciss, Hima-Zinn, middlingphys, quiple, KuwaLee, cirx1e, ivanbea, kodebanget, Signez, and ivanbea