Bluesky now supports better quality images

Bluesky is promoting its social network as a better place to post photos. Late Wednesday, the company announced a new version of its app (version 1.121), which enhances the quality of images in posts in terms of upload size and resolution.

Previously, Bluesky only supported image uploads of 1MB or less. Now, this limit has doubled to 2MB. In addition, images will be displayed at a resolution of up to 4000 pixels, instead of 2000x as before.

Additionally, the company replaced the old photo grid with a scrollable carousel that can handle mixed aspect ratios without cropping. (Although early feedback from some Bluesky users suggests they prefer to choose between publishing as a grid or carousel.)

The changes could make Bluesky more competitive with other social networks, like X or Meta’s Threads.

The latter became popular after its launch as a photo display, thanks to its support for a variety of aspect ratios and its carousel, which provided clever ways of dividing larger images for display in this way. In fact, it inspired one developer to create a standalone app to help users post their panoramas to Threads. (Themes still support the larger image size limit, although it is not published in the themes’ documentation.)