BSFC Feature Spotlights

🚨🚨🚨Your BSFC feeds can now search for hidden tags, like the ones you can add to a post via @deck.blue. You just need to adjust your "Search within" toggle at the bottom of the blue search terms box on your feed dashboard. Posts which come in with hidden tags will show them in purple in Recent Posts.

🚨🚨🚨 We've got a new synced list option for paid users available this morning and we think it's a pretty handy one! You can now create a synced list of users who have liked a feed. If you combine this with poster permissions, you could e.g. allow additional permissions to people who like the feed.

🚨🚨🚨 We love that people use our service to build communities, and we know some people already crowdsource the cost of their BSFC subscription. Now feed viewers can donate direct, with no fees - you receive the whole donation. It's a shortcode for your public page- just use [donate] for the button.

New feature spotlight: we added a delete these posts button to the moderation interface. If you click it, you'll get a dialog box offering to delete a given number of posts. You can do this in the Manual approval tab, and you can also search for a term and delete all the posts the search throws up.

Feature spotlight, an oldie but a goodie. Did you know that when you make a feed on Bluesky Feed Creator, you decide on your own feed path? No random string of characters needed. Make it something relevant to your feed! Of course, if you prefer the random string, feel free to put one in there too.

New feature spotlight! A good day for BSFC news! Here's another wee feature we've released overnight: the minus operator. Use this one for terms with exceptions. Maybe you want all posts mentioning #cats as long as they don't also mention #diggers: now you can specify that with #cats - #diggers

We couldn't leave it alone, team, we're adding more-more-more synced list options! You can now put your mutuals into a list using this same process laid out in the linked tutorial. Just select "Mutual follows" on the Import list page.

New feature spotlight: custom poster permissions You can decide what your feed collects from users on an individual basis - do you want their collected posts to match your main terms, or their own terms, and what do you want to do with their posts/replies? Paid users can also do this with lists.

New feature spotlight! You can now comment in your term boxes, which is great for keeping track of why things are included/excluded, or just groups of related terms. Use 2 hyphens together (--) at the start of a line to get BSFC to ignore the line. The line can wrap too, if your titles are longer.

New feature spotlight: you can now sort the order of posts in your feed by how many likes, replies or reposts and quotes they have. This feature works best when you have a fast moving feed, because posts which have been around longer can stick to the top. We're planning to fine tune that!

New feature spotlight: the auto moderated column We added this in as an easy way for you to keep track of which posts have had auto moderator actions done to them. Any posts where your auto moderator approves, hides, requires approval and so on, will show up in this column.

New feature spotlight: And searching! You can now search for "this + that" which would return every post mentioning "this" AND ALSO "that", regardless of where in the post they are. You could even search for "this + that + that over there + this one here" - you can include more than 2 terms.

New feature spotlight: we added some neat user permissions functions last month. Firstly, you've got the post_from: operator. This collects all posts which come from a given user. You need their whole handle after the :, along with the @. reply_to: collects replies to a given user.

New feature spotlights: terms tester! We added this nifty feature to the BSFC feed dashboard, attached to each terms box under Capturing Posts. It helps you figure out, in real time, whether a given post will match your terms, and you can amend the terms from there and save them back in too.

Feature spotlight: fast, friendly support At least, we think we're friendly. We're always happy to help if you're stuck on an auto mod rule, or you've found something funky going on that could be a bug. And we aim to respond super quickly if your feed's not performing during an event.

Feature spotlight: turn a starter pack into a feed No middle man, we've made this really easy. Paid users in the standard or premium tier can do this - simply input a starter pack link and BSFC can use it as a post input for your feed. Find out more here: blueskyfeedcreator.com/he….

Feature spotlight: feed administrators Do you run a *hefty* feed? Or a busy feed? Premium subscribers can delegate some of the day to day managing of their feed to other users. Those designated admins can approve, deny, and hide posts, block and allow users, and amend terms for the feed.

Feature spotlight: auto moderator! Write rules in YAML to control our auto moderator feature, streamlining your moderation. It can apply additional rules over the top of your capturing terms, and approve, deny, hide, scoop into the Requires Approval queue if those rules are met.

Feature spotlight: unlimited archival feeds Hosted a feed for an event or to tell a particular story? You can stop it listening for new posts, but leave all the posts collected visible in the feed on Bluesky. These archival feeds don't count towards your feed limit, even if you're a free user.

Feature spotlight: import and replace feeds You can bring a feed over to us seamlessly, without your feed viewers noticing a thing. Including posts! All you need is your feed path. Once you've got settings dialed in, then just click publish - BSFC will make the feed active using our service.

Feature spotlight: relocate feeds That is, you can change the account that a feed is published under on Bluesky. If you change your user handle or get a new user domain, that's no problem - you can take your feeds with you. Find out more here: blueskyfeedcreator.com/he….

Feature spotlight: feed statistics! You can keep track of how you feed is performing with views, posts and response times. The views and post charts are up to date in real time, giving you a clear idea of how things are going for your feed at any moment.

Feature spotlight: Feed list Got a lot of feeds? See them all in one place on your main dashboard, together with indicators of whether they're active, shared, and do any posts require your approval? You can also filter your feed list to find what you're looking for, fast.

Feature spotlight: easy setups! Our service uses plain text and wildcards to gather posts for your feed based on your words, phrases, hashtags, emojis, etc. No coding, no regex, no search operators. To see just how easy it is, check out this video tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C….

Feature spotlight: filter posts by content type! Do you want to make a feed which picks up only video, or only images? Or, would you prefer a text only feed? You can even use our toggles to collect gifs only - or exclude them entirely. All of these options are on your main feed dashboard.