I've been testing a few open Discord alternatives (including atproto-native ones) and they are really promising, but not fully there yet! So for now, I decided to instead simply create a temporary bsky group chat for SkyFeed discussion: bsky.app/chat/eCF6sL2 - feel free to join and say hi :)

Hi! SkyFeed is struggling and I need to find a solution. If you don't know SkyFeed, it's a service I built 2 years ago, enabling anyone to build and publish feeds using a visual block-based editor. SkyFeed is still hosting the most feeds on Bluesky, but that comes at a cost [1/X]

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Hey SkyFeed users, fly.io is currently having a "Major Outage" in the IAD region where the skyfeed cache infrastructure is hosted: status.flyio.net As a result, all skyfeed feeds are currently down until fly.io is back online, very sorry about that.

I'm sorry for the current SkyFeed outage, I'm pretty sure it's caused by @fly.io which I use for smart caching of feeds. It usually works great. See https://status.flyio.net/ for status

All SkyFeed feeds should now be back online, thanks for your patience! This has been the first and only downtime in the last 4 months.

redsolver@redsolver.dev · 2y ago

The SkyFeed infrastructure seems to be experiencing issues. I'm on it

Time for some cool feeds on bsky! @redsolver.dev has built these feeds for you based on skygraph.art community detection data A lot of people might find these useful as-is, but these feeds are just the first baby steps - building blocks, that can go into a more complicated Home/Discovery feed. 🧵👇

Hey SkyFeed users, Hetzner is experiencing a vSwitch outage which affects the SkyFeed query engine servers hosted in Finland. I'm re-routing requests to Germany now so feeds should still work, but they might be a bit slower to update than usual! status.hetzner.com/incident/1db...

I would like to thank everyone who already donated via GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/redsolver) 💙 Thanks to *you*, SkyFeed is now over 52% of the way to being sustainable, meaning SkyFeed can continue to host free feeds for millions of users, without any ads or similar bullshit!

We just reached 40 000 custom feeds on Bluesky! 🎉 If you're interested in self-hosting a SkyFeed-compatible feed engine (it's open-source), send me a message and we'll get it set up! It would be great to diversify the ecosystem :) These are the 16 most-used feed generators currently on the network:

90% of SkyFeed feed requests are now served in 24 milliseconds or less, with only about 1% of requests taking 4 seconds or more. And after adding protection against recursive "feed bombs" today (feeds using themselves as an input), over 99.9% of requests now return with a HTTP 200 OK status code!

My shiny new database server ran out of file descriptors because I only set higher limits for users when setting it up, but the DB runs as a systemd service (which has different limits). As a result, some SkyFeed feeds were stuck on old state for up to 6 hours. Sorry about that, should be fixed now!

You may have noticed that SkyFeed is a bit unreliable at times. This is caused by a small number of feeds being extremely slow and blocking the data structures. I'm trying to fix this with some Rust magic, but please also verify that your feeds take less than 10 seconds to generate in the Builder!

I just found and fixed a bug which caused all feeds using "single user" inputs or any type of "list" (input, remove) blocks to fail. If your feed was broken for the last few hours, please check again - there's a good chance it's fixed now!

All SkyFeed feeds are now back online, thanks for your patience! The feed generator backend is now serving 120 feed requests/second :O New posts might still be a bit delayed, please reply to this post if your feed is having other issues.

The SkyFeed infrastructure is a bit overloaded, I am currently working on setting up a new query engine server and redirecting some of the traffic there. So everything should be back to normal in about 1 to 2 hours, thanks for your patience!

✨ SkyFeed v0.9.9 ✨ • Improved Search • Feed Builder Preview: Highlight images with ALT text matching RegEx • Android: Account Switcher works now • Android: Set target language, ignore languages or disable automatic translation • Other UI improvements Download APK: github.com/skyfeed-dev/...

🛠️ SkyFeed Builder Update (v0.9.7) [2/2] 🛠️ • New "Replace" block to replace all posts in a feed with their parent post, root post or quoted post (useful for feeds which want to show posts based on specific text in replies for example, like a specific emoji) Try it on https://skyfeed.app

🛠️ SkyFeed Builder Update (v0.9.7) [1/2] 🛠️ • New experimental "Remember Posts" block to keep almost unlimited post history beyond 7 days (great for feeds with less frequent new posts) Try it on https://skyfeed.app The Android APK will be updated soon!

Hey feed builders, Bluesky started rejecting non-UTC-timestamps for new records today (good change!) and SkyFeed had a bug where it did not convert the timestamp when publishing feeds. This is fixed now, so it should be possible again to publish and update feeds!

Due to a small bug in the indexer, lists created using the List Architect (see embed) could not be used as inputs/removes in the SkyFeed Builder. This is now fixed, but you might need to re-create the lists for them to work.

SkyFeed App@skyfeed.app · 3y ago

✨ The 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 is now live on skyfeed.app ✨ You can use it to create lists based on RegEx matching display names, handles and the full profile description. This feature is still highly experimental, so please be careful and report any issues and bugs you might encounter here in this thread!

✨ The 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 is now live on skyfeed.app ✨ You can use it to create lists based on RegEx matching display names, handles and the full profile description. This feature is still highly experimental, so please be careful and report any issues and bugs you might encounter here in this thread!

redsolver@redsolver.dev · 3y ago

SkyFeed List Architect, first experimental version launching tomorrow! Works for both curation and mute lists 👀

SkyFeed v0.9.3 just went up, including the new Mute RegEx feature!

SkyFeed App@skyfeed.app · 3y ago

Introducing the Mute RegEx, available in the SkyFeed App later today! Use it to easily mute posts which contain specific words, phrases or phone numbers across the entire SkyFeed App.

✨ The 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 is now live on skyfeed.app ✨ You can use it to create lists based on RegEx matching display names, handles and the full profile description. This feature is still highly experimental, so please be careful and report any issues and bugs you might encounter here in this thread!

redsolver@redsolver.dev · 3y ago

SkyFeed List Architect, first experimental version launching tomorrow! Works for both curation and mute lists 👀

Introducing the Mute RegEx, available in the SkyFeed App later today! Use it to easily mute posts which contain specific words, phrases or phone numbers across the entire SkyFeed App.

📱SkyFeed is now available for Android📱 Download the APK here: github.com/skyfeed-dev/... This is the first mobile release, so please be aware that it might not be completely bug-free yet! Some of the more interesting features are automatic (offline) translations and real-time interaction counts.

Feed of Feeds updated, it now sorts posts by likes and freshness (HN algorithm). Use it to discover new interesting feeds!

📱SkyFeed is now available for Android📱 Download the APK here: github.com/skyfeed-dev/... This is the first mobile release, so please be aware that it might not be completely bug-free yet! Some of the more interesting features are automatic (offline) translations and real-time interaction counts.

✨ SkyFeed v0.9.0 ✨ • The sidebar is now collapsible and shows a list of trending hashtags • You can now create multiple workspaces/decks and quickly switch between them • Full hashtag support with feeds for every existing hashtag (sorted by New, Hot, Rising, Top or Random) → skyfeed.app

✨ SkyFeed v0.9.0 ✨ • The sidebar is now collapsible and shows a list of trending hashtags • You can now create multiple workspaces/decks and quickly switch between them • Full hashtag support with feeds for every existing hashtag (sorted by New, Hot, Rising, Top or Random) → skyfeed.app