Bluesky now supports better quality photos

Bluesky is beefing up its societal web arsenic a amended spot to station photos. Late Wednesday, the institution announced a caller mentation of its app (version 1.121), which boosts the prime of images successful posts some successful presumption of upload size and resolution.

Before, Bluesky lone supported photograph uploads of 1MB oregon less. Now, that bounds has doubled to 2MB. In addition, photos volition render astatine up to 4000px, alternatively of 2000x, arsenic before.

In addition, the institution replaced its aged representation grid with a swipeable carousel that tin grip mixed facet ratios without cropping. (Although aboriginal feedback from immoderate Bluesky users indicates that they would similar the prime betwixt posting arsenic a grid oregon carousel.)

The changes could marque Bluesky’s app much competitory with different societal networks, similar X oregon Meta’s Threads.

The second became good known aft its motorboat arsenic a showcase for photos, acknowledgment to its enactment for a assortment of facet ratios and its carousel, which offered clever ways to divided up larger photos for viewing successful this way. In fact, it adjacent inspired a developer to make a standalone app to assistance users station their panoramic photos to Threads. (Threads inactive supports a larger maximum representation size, though it isn’t published successful Threads’ documentation.)