Bluesky readers lose their place in the timeline
People reading Bluesky feeds struggle to return to the post where they stopped: refreshing can jump to the newest posts, and newly loaded content can move their position. They end up scrolling to find their place or reading through posts they have already seen. One reader explicitly says reliable position-saving would make a subscription worthwhile.
For bluesky readers who follow active feeds. Mentioned from Sep 2023 to Dec 2024 on Bluesky and GitHub.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 6.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 5.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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I would gladly pay the subscription fee — if the app maintained my place in the feed. If I’m reading posts and leave the app at whatever point and relaunch it a few hours later, I should see the post I was just reading and continue from there. But that doesn’t happen reliably
When I refresh on my phone, it always goes right to the most-recent at the top, and then I have to read down to where I left off. For me, this is a non starter, so I hope there is an actual phone app that let's you control that
Build brief
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