Bridgy Fed for the Atmosphere (Bluesky)

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. Since last time, we’ve been focusing on a big new project that we’re almost ready to start beta testing, but we also managed to ship some smaller features and improvements:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Apologies all, we had a bit of downtime this morning due to a network partition at our host. Bridging out of the Atmosphere (Bluesky) was down for roughly 1h, 7:45-8:45a PT (14:45-15:45 UTC), and bridging into the Atmosphere was also down for roughly 1h, 8:25-9:25a PT (15:25-16:25 UTC).

Sorry for the outage. We have a couple concrete plans for how we can improve our fault tolerance and resilience to network partitions and issues like this in the future. Thank you for your patience with us!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been hard at work on upcoming projects since last time, but we’ve also found time to work on smaller features and bug fixes. Here are a few we’ve shipped recently:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

New status update! Cost cutting, datastore migration, optimizations, DM notification improvements, bot account labels, [Unofficial] web sites, bug fixes, and more…

Hi everyone! Here’s your semi-regular Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been busy since last time!

Our main focus over the last couple months has been cost cutting. We have an entire blog post on this coming up, but suffice it to say that we’ve had to work hard to keep costs under control while growing users and adding lots of new functionality.

Our two biggest projects on that front were migrating our datastore to a cheaper configuration, which cut datastore costs by half, and optimizing ATProto getRepo calls, which sped them up over 20x and brought down our frontend instance count ~3x.

We also shipped some great new features:

…and bug fixes:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Hi everyone! Here’s your semi-regular Bridgy Fed status update. We’ve been busy since last time!

The two big new features we launched were domain blocklists (GitHub) and responding to unbridged users (GitHub). We’ve seen good feedback and usage on both, especially responding to unbridged users. Please keep the feedback coming!

We also significantly improved bridging speed, especially to Bluesky. For a couple months, it slowed down to an average delay of 3-5 minutes, with outliers that took so long that we occasionally dropped them entirely. Not good. We worked hard to optimize and managed to cut that average delay down to just 5-10 seconds, which feels way better.

We shipped a bunch of smaller stuff too:

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good holiday. It’s shaping up to be a great year on the open social web!

We’ve been busy working on new features, internal improvements, bug fixes, and exploring new networks over the last couple months. Here are the noticeable changes on the bridge since our last update:

Bug fixes:

Internal:

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As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

We had some downtime bridging to Bluesky last night, roughly 10:30-15:30 UTC. Back up and running as of a couple hours ago. Bridging from Bluesky, and between web and fediverse, were unaffected. Apologies for the outage!

Will investigate, feel free to follow https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/2150 for details.

Hi everyone! We’ve been working on a few big projects since our last status update, but we’ve also made progess on smaller improvements and bug fixes for Bounce and Bridgy Fed. Here are the noticeable Bridgy Fed changes since last time.

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

I’ve been paying for Bridgy Fed myself, out of pocket, since the beginning. I’m happy to, and I’ll continue to, but it’s not cheap. We have big ideas and plans for the future, and funding is our main blocker. Please help if you can!  

Hi everyone! It’s been a few months since last time, so let’s dive into another status update. The big new projects and features we’ve been working on are elsewhere or still baking, so it’s mostly smaller additions and bug fixes, but there’s still plenty of good stuff.

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Got another new post! Bridging identity with account links. They’re a simple, modular way to connect your various accounts and posts across the open social web. Bridgy Fed supports them, and we’d love to see other apps and platforms adopt them too.

Feedback is welcome. And support us on Patreon!

New blog post! Bridging vs cross-posting. They’re similar, but bridged conversations tend to be more unified across networks, while cross-posting ends up more fragmented.

Feedback is welcome! And friendly reminder, if you appreciate what you do here, feel free to check out our Patreon!

Hi everyone! Time for a Bridgy Fed status update. We have a lot of new features and bug fixes to announce since the last time, so here we go!

As usual, feel free to ping us with feedback, questions, and bug reports, and please support us on Patreon! You can follow the now label on GitHub to see what we’re currently focusing on. See you on the bridge!

Hi all! We never got into the habit of posting here regularly, but we’re going to start now. We have things to tell you! Bridgy Fed updates, new projects, other news. We don’t plan to post often, maybe once a week or so at most, but feel free to unfollow if you want, your account will keep bridging.