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Admins: Can RealGM add a Bluesky button for posts? 

Post#1 » by Gant » Thu Nov 7, 2024 2:41 pm

I hope this is the proper way to ask this question.

The Bluesky social network is emerging as a useful place for NBA and Celtics news. There are buttons available on RealGM to link posts and video clips for Twitter, Youtube, and Instagram.

Can a Bluesky button be added to those? It would be helpful in seamlessly adding info from that growing website.


Here's a link to Noa Dalzell's Bluesky page. She's as good as anyone covering the team and has recently become active there.

https://bsky.app/profile/noadalzell.bsky.social


Here's another Celtics reporter, Cameron Tabatabaie‬ on the site:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3cuohwvmd6a5qehj2tz6u3sz


Here's Howard Beck:

https://bsky.app/profile/howardbeck.bsky.social


--- I originally posted this over on the Celtics board, which is why it's team-centric. The thread was moved over here. I hope the powers that be can make this happen. Thanks.
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Post#2 » by bisme37 » Thu Nov 7, 2024 4:45 pm

Gant, I left your post visible on the C's board but moved it to Feedback and Suggestions forum. I don't know the answer and I think it's more of an admin question than a mod question. There are RGM admins (and mods) who monitor the suggestions forum, and if anyone can help with this, it's them. I'd like to see this happen myself. Cheers.
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Post#3 » by Gant » Fri Nov 8, 2024 2:25 pm

bisme37 wrote:Gant, I left your post visible on the C's board but moved it to Feedback and Suggestions forum. I don't know the answer and I think it's more of an admin question than a mod question. There are RGM admins (and mods) who monitor the suggestions forum, and if anyone can help with this, it's them. Cheers.


Thanks. I saw that it was moved to the appropriate place, which I did not know existed. I'm glad you also left it on the Celtics board, because Bluesky is pretty cool and others here might want to take a peek at it.

I added that final sentence after it was moved. There are a number of general NBA writers starting to be active on the site, in addition to those following specific teams.


Here's a few of the NBA writers active on the site:

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/shanejackson.bsky.social/3lah3tlqqsp25
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Post#4 » by MickeyDavis » Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:53 pm

Yes, the migration from Twitter/X to Bluesky is a real thing. We need that incorporated here asap.
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Post#5 » by Gant » Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:58 pm

MickeyDavis wrote:Yes, the migration from Twitter/X to Bluesky is a real thing. We need that incorporated here asap.


I look forward to that. It will make linking their stuff over here easier. NBA Bluesky has grown noticeably just since I started this thread a week ago.

Some heavy hitters are starting to post there, and the Golden State Warriors have just opened their official team account:
https://bsky.app/profile/warriorsofficial.bsky.social
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Post#6 » by ReasonablySober » Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:32 am

Yup. It happened fast but it's arrived. Sports media has migrated over and Twitter is now a ghost town.
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Post#7 » by tecumseh18 » Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:56 pm

Co-signed. I came here to ask this.

BTW, the Raptors, and almost all of their social media "influencers" are now on Bluesky, and the numbers are growing every day.
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Post#8 » by Gant » Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:52 pm

Bluesky user stats: https://vqv.app/stats/

The site is now approaching 29 million users and growing very fast. The sports content is growing along with that userbase. It would be good for both RealGM and Bluesky if a button for posting information from that site was added.
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Post#9 » by HaroldinGMinor » Wed Jan 22, 2025 9:39 pm

sub reddits are banning Twitter links. Not saying I want that but it would be great to have a Blue Sky button as a lot of people are abandoning X and moving to BlueSky.
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Post#10 » by ReasonablySober » Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:53 am

Any update on this? If it's even being worked on? It's extremely needed.
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Post#11 » by HaroldinGMinor » Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:21 pm

Gant wrote:Bluesky user stats: https://vqv.app/stats/

The site is now approaching 29 million users and growing very fast. The sports content is growing along with that userbase. It would be good for both RealGM and Bluesky if a button for posting information from that site was added.


It's over 30 million now.
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Post#12 » by Ducksplatt » Thu Feb 6, 2025 11:58 pm

Yes. Please.


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Post#13 » by Capn'O » Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:28 am

Bump.

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Post#14 » by ReasonablySober » Thu Feb 13, 2025 7:48 am

Any word on this at all? The newbreakers are using this primarily.
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Post#15 » by Gant » Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:24 pm

The NBA has opened an official account on Bluesky. They haven't posted anything as of this moment.

They also didn't announce anything about it, but despite that they picked up 10,000 followers in a day.

https://bsky.app/profile/nba.com
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Post#16 » by oldncreaky » Wed Feb 19, 2025 7:10 am

I agree that bluesky should be added, or better yet replace, the X button on RealGM.

The Current Affairs board now has more hyperlinks to bluesky than embeds of X, and following the hyperlinks has become a bit of a burden.
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Post#17 » by Revived » Thu Feb 20, 2025 3:03 am

Gant wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:Yes, the migration from Twitter/X to Bluesky is a real thing. We need that incorporated here asap.


I look forward to that. It will make linking their stuff over here easier. NBA Bluesky has grown noticeably just since I started this thread a week ago.

Some heavy hitters are starting to post there, and the Golden State Warriors have just opened their official team account:
https://bsky.app/profile/warriors.bsky.social/post/3laujvquf4s2t

That link doesn’t work for me.
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Post#18 » by Gant » Thu Feb 20, 2025 5:09 pm

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Gant wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:Yes, the migration from Twitter/X to Bluesky is a real thing. We need that incorporated here asap.


I look forward to that. It will make linking their stuff over here easier. NBA Bluesky has grown noticeably just since I started this thread a week ago.

Some heavy hitters are starting to post there, and the Golden State Warriors have just opened their official team account:

That link doesn’t work for me.


Here's an updated address for the Warriors, though they haven't posted in a while.

https://bsky.app/profile/warriorsofficial.bsky.social
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Post#19 » by HaroldinGMinor » Sat Mar 15, 2025 5:23 pm

33 million users. This request took less than 24 hours to fulfill on another site I go to.
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Post#20 » by Stannis » Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:21 pm

I'd also like to give BlueSky a try. RealGM is pretty much the only message board I still use.
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