{"id":413805,"date":"2026-04-23T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413805\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:31:08","slug":"bluesky-now-supports-better-quality-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/413805\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluesky now supports better quality photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bluesky is beefing up its social network as a better place to post photos. Late Wednesday, the company <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bsky.app\/post\/3mk4lzkrnk22d\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a new version of its app (version 1.121), which boosts the quality of images in posts both in terms of upload size and resolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before, Bluesky only supported photo uploads of 1MB or less. Now, that limit has doubled to 2MB. In addition, photos will render at up to 4000px, instead of 2000x, as before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the company replaced its old image grid with a swipeable carousel that can handle mixed aspect ratios without cropping. (Although early feedback from some Bluesky users indicates that they would prefer the choice between posting as a grid or carousel.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes could make Bluesky\u2019s app more competitive with other social networks, like X or Meta\u2019s Threads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latter became well known after its launch as a showcase for photos, thanks to its support for a variety of aspect ratios and its carousel, which offered clever ways to split up larger photos for viewing in this way. In fact, it even inspired a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/16\/photo-layout-app-series-makes-it-easier-to-post-your-panos-to-threads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developer to create a standalone app<\/a> to help users post their panoramic photos to Threads. (Threads still <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outfy.com\/blog\/threads-image-and-video-size-guide\" target=\"_blank\">supports<\/a> a larger maximum image size, though it isn\u2019t published in Threads\u2019 documentation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bluesky is beefing up its social network as a better place to post photos. Late Wednesday, the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69330,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-413805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bluesky","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}