Some W users experienced problems today because W was relying on Bluesky’s AppView. When their AppView went down, parts of W went down with it. Our own AppView was already under development and it kept working. So we’ve now switched W over to our own AppView, currently serving verified users only.
Aug 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
We probably need to rename the AppView
It should be called an API server, App server, or backend.
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storm.leaflet.pubthanks to @quillmatiq.com, Bluepy now supports logging into to alternative AppViews, like @rude1.blacksky.team's Blacksky which is where i'm sending this post from try it out at bluepy.social
@zeens.app feed is looking particularly beautiful today 😍 The IOS app is still work-in-progress. working out some issues on my developer account with Apple's support. But honestly, at this point it feels like Apple support doesn't really help. They just copy-paste the same email again and again :(
Something interesting just happened that brings some questions I know @standard-reader.app respects Bluesky's blocks, and I've just seen it happening not allowing me to open an article from a person that I just found out is blocking me (from a mod list, not a big deal, I don't mind) But...
When @bsky.app pulls this kind of crap often, whilst also expecting the community to do the heavy-lifting in actually convincing people to try out the AT Protocol... it's really difficult to feel hopeful about the future of Bluesky and its constituents. I imagine many agree with this stance.
Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂
Bluesky’s statement deriding Threads users as “guinea pigs” is not representative of Blacksky Algorithms, the atproto ecosystem or the open social web more broadly. Communities form around communication networks. And communities should never be trolled for whatever tool helps them find each other.
Update: The external AppView is stable again, so W has switched back. All AT Protocol users are now visible again. Our own AppView worked well as a fallback, but currently only includes W and verified users. In the future, you’ll be able to choose which AppView to use. Thanks for your patience.
Bluesky's AppView performance has not been so great recently, right? Long loading times with "Please check your internet connection" or "rate limit exceeded" Thinking it may be folks off of the Bluesky PDS's. Thought it was android oddities, but I get it on desktop and have heard from others
I think Bluesky's relay or appview may just have temporarily lagged behind on getting posts from Blacksky users. So if you're hosted by Blacksky, but you're logged into bsky on mobile, it would look like your posts didn't go through If this is still impacting you, please email support@blacksky.app
Captain Chaos
Yeah as you replied suddenly everything came through the garbage ass BlueSky app
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These do not hold their own records but instead use the bluesky records. They are not likely not appviews (subject to change since things keep changing)
spaces-alpha.host.bsky.network
Ouranos
Anisota for Bluesky & the Atmosphere
Latinsky
Medsky
Northsky
