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SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

Just fixed a couple of small bugs (trail parameters work now). No other notes over the last few days which might mean... This is stable?? Is it??!

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(Feel free to share with friends who might want to test! Or add them to your Top 8 and then remove them when they don't reciprocate, etc.)

OK FINE I'LL ADD IT TO THE TO-DO LIST 🙄

This has been a massive headache for two weeks (details in the thread). I am relieved it is done and now I can get back to being anxious about the really good puzzle game I've been working on for two years which went into open beta today. 😬

OK. I can't see any problems from this end, people do seem to have created and edited their profiles. But it's possible there's something wrong! Try in an incognito window or a different browser?

OK! I've not seen anything like that before. Although there is no app, just a website - if you're using your phone, perhaps something is cached and it's loading part of the old site? If you're on a computer holding shift and refresh on the page might help?

OK, that's not great! Does it say it's posting? The changes are appearing on your profile and then... disappearing when you refresh your browser?

tldr: SkySpace sort-of-worked before and should sort-of-work better now. Thank you all for playing around with it! 🥳

For now the site still falls back to reading #skyspace posts if it can't find the new records so old designs will still display. Profiles created with the new records should be permanent. Theoretically. It's untested (who wants to think about the future?) but, well, that's what a Beta is for.

(*Interests currently uses the old method but I hope to move it to the Content record at some point. It's a little trickier and I need a break.)

🖼️ Aesthetic posts (e.g. backgrounds, pointers, etc.) now write to private records, structured in a way that's easily parsed and that I can add to later.

📝 Content-related posts (e.g. music, top 8) write to private records AND make (hidden) public posts, because I want them to be searchable on BSky.

I thought a refactor might be painful (I'm learning all of this as I go) (and I have a day job and three games to finish!!!) (I'm really excited to show one of them to you) (Soon).

Guess what?? It was!! I hated it! But it is done*. So...

The site began as a joke for my friends and in that context this kind of sketchy semi-permanence was absolutely fine. But it spread beyond that and so Something Had To Be Done.

Still, there was another problem (beyond the weird and basically unsustainable structure). For boring API-related reasons profiles would start to disappear to non-logged-in viewers after SkySpace users had made lots of posts. 😬

Then I added deliberate edits (using that tag, posted through Bluesky), then native posting from SkySpace itself, then the form. And it all worked fine! Basically! As long as you don't think too hard about it! Or at all about the future!!

Not thinking about the future rn is really tempting. 👀

Prior to this version profile edits relied on finding and parsing posts under the #skyspace tag. This was a product of the way I originally thought of SkySpace: a quick skin that would interpret posts that were already in your timeline.

First, a caveat: if you have a profile already it'll display as one but when you make new edits sections will reset. It should only take a couple of moments to fix (my hint: save your background URL, that's the annoying one).

SORRY. But it's for the greater good.

SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

SkySpace update! Beta 4 is live now.

HEADLINE:
🤓 Profile edits are now stored as structured data rather than as plain text!!!

It sounds boring. It is! But it's important. More info below. Also:

🔎 User search is fixed
🎱 Top 8 behaves correctly
↗️ ... Cursors are a bit better?

Go test:
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Are you logged in? If you're viewing your profile logged out and you've posted quite a lot since you made the changes they may not appear - if you log in it SHOULD all still be there and a trivial edit will bump it all to the top again. This will change in v1 and it should be more permanent...

Look, @failbettergames.bsky.social made a SkySpace page, which means they are now SkySpace's official gaming partner. Congratulations to all involved!!!

#skyspace #core BG: https://i.imgur.com/fH4vHog.mp4
BGPosition: default
Frame: 5px outset #ffffff #ebf6ff 0.95
Font: Arial #000000 #ff5800 #000000
Quote: You're in my Top 8 💕
Location: 2005

#skyspace https://lowtheband.bandcamp.com/track/dinosaur-act

SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

Small update:

🎧 Bandcamp links work! This is very good news; I wanted this in from the start but it was a bit fiddly. You should use this where possible - it's better for the artist, your visitors AND it looks nicer

🎹 Midi links also work! Sorry about that

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This is fixed now. I think!

Fantastic, thank you!

Oh, thank you! I don't use Spotify so I'd have missed that. Can you give me an example of what it does, and what it should be?

SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

SkySpace update!

📼 Video backgrounds!
💗 Like / reply / repost from within SkySpace!
📝 Prettier post formatting!
😮 Even shinier badges for supporters!
🌈 Trail configuration actually works!

That's Beta 3 r3. Enjoy! Version 1.0 feels close...

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#skyspace #core BG: https://i.imgur.com/fH4vHog.mp4
BGPosition: default
Frame: 0px solid #000000 #ffffff 0.8
Font: Arial #000000 #ff5800 #000000
Quote: NULL
Location: NULL

SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

Beta 3 r2 is up now! Featuring:

🌈 Custom cursors and trails!!
🖼️ No more reposts in your gallery!
✨ Shiny gold profile cards for supporters!
🔐 Better (and clearer) login bar!

... And some small fixes. Thanks to everyone who's been testing / making suggestions! 🥳 💖

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This should work now, I think!

SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005) Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?

Beta 3 r2 is up now! Featuring:

🌈 Custom cursors and trails!!
🖼️ No more reposts in your gallery!
✨ Shiny gold profile cards for supporters!
🔐 Better (and clearer) login bar!

... And some small fixes. Thanks to everyone who's been testing / making suggestions! 🥳 💖

skyspace.me