Bluesky Lounges

[MichaelGHUser]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Bluesky Lounges. The successor of Twitter Spaces essentially.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice to have the ability to have audio chats like with Twitter Spaces. Session hosts could enable recordings as before, but they would also have proper media playback controls, a dedicated volume slider, and the ability to permit downloads for offline playback.

Ideally, Bluesky Lounges would be completely device agnostic, maintaining feature parity across mobile and web. This is not true for Spaces currently, as Speakers must be on a mobile device to participate.

I understand you all are extremely busy with other—more important—requests. I know this won't be a feature for a long time coming, but it's in the pile at least.

[pfrazee]

I think this is something I'd like to see happen through integration with another app. There was a project early on that showed some interesting promise on that front. We can create some pretty cool ways to show active rooms in another app that then bounce to that app when tapped.

[edolis]

just humbly reminding about this. Please do not overlook the importance of linking solidly to the user profile to allow checking their posts/background and implement blocking. This is important, for instance, in spaces subject to trolling [e.g. fundraisers in support of Ukraine like Volya radio on twitter - which would love to migrate to BlueSky]

[ktotten]

Bumping this request. Anything on the roadmap yet?