Skyscraper 1.5.3

Live search: results update as you type, with a running count.

Aug 8, 20264 min read

SEARCH AND FEEDS

Live search: results update as you type, with a running count.
"Save as Pinned Feed" on the search filter panel turns a hashtag or any query with its filters into a column/feed you can return to. Search now defaults to sorting by Latest, and pinning is disabled under Top, since a pinned feed only means something for a chronological sort. Synced across devices via iCloud.

Replies now show the thread ROOT rather than the immediate parent. Most timeline replies are replies-to-replies, and a mid-thread parent read on its own is a fragment — the root is what the conversation is about. This matches Bluesky. Paired with a "Show full thread" link that opens the posts in between.
The handle a reply opens with is now accent-colored and bold in reply pills and thread continuation rows, so it reads as a mention instead of flat body text. Links and hashtags in that text are colored too.
Self-threads are marked with a dotted outline carrying a "Thread" caption at the top-left and bottom-right, fieldset style.
A thread root now draws a connector down out of its avatar, so it links to the posts below it the way the continuation rows already linked to each other.
Threads of videos play inline. They previously rendered as a column of "Video" buttons with nothing to watch. The button is kept as the fallback when "Show Videos" is off in Settings.
Quoted posts inside thread continuation rows now render as the full quote card instead of a "Quoted post" pill, and tapping the card, its author or its hashtags all work.

Full-screen photos rotate on iPhone. Turning the phone sideways to fill the screen with a landscape photo is the point of full screen, and previously only video could do it. Zoom resets to fit on rotation.
With "Show Full Size Image Previews" on, a wide photo now gets the full content width at its natural height instead of being stretched taller and cropped at the sides — most visible on screenshots of text, which were losing their left and right edges. Tall photos are unchanged, and the setting's off state renders exactly as it did before.
Link card thumbnails are laid out at the standard 1200x630 card ratio rather than a fixed height, so a normal og:image lands uncropped.
GIFs posted as a Giphy page link (what clients other than Bluesky's own picker post) now resolve to the actual animation instead of spinning on a placeholder forever.

Tapping "X reposted" opens the reposter's profile — which is where you'd go to mute their reposts when they flood your feed, or just to see who they are.

Grouping ("X and 3 others followed you") now happens on the All tab only. On a filtered tab you've already narrowed to one kind of notification, so collapsing hid the very thing you asked to see — the Follows tab now reads as a list of people, and each row goes straight to that profile.
The last segment's icon is now a bell badge instead of an ellipsis.

Improved missing "X reposted" headers in the main feed.
Fixed an issue where you would see an inflated "N posts above" badge, which could read in the hundreds or thousands after a cold launch.
Two crashes: a theme object read from inside a toolbar item, and a duplicate identifier when a post both quoted and replied to the post you were viewing.
Tapping "Show full thread" opened the leaf reply pinned to the top of the screen, alone above a blank area with every parent scrolled off above it. The thread now opens with its parents on screen.
The Chat Requests list rendered on pure black instead of the themed background, which stood out against off-black dark styles like Sleeping Panther.

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