Sticky Posts

What is a sticky post?

Sticky posts are posts that can be pinned or recur in your feed. Let's have a look at how to create them and what you can use them for.

To create a new sticky post, click the plus on the dashboard above your editor:

You'll then have the opportunity to choose to create a pinned post, or a rotating post:

By adding in the url of the skeet you'd like to promote, you'll be able to create a sticky post.

What can we use sticky posts for?

We might choose to pin a post to the top of our feed that contains some instructions or information about our feed.

For example, here's a pinned post at the top of the BookSky feed:

We might use rotating posts to provide information to the feed, or to cross promote other feeds of interest to our subscribers. For example, here the Urbanism+ feed uses a rotating post to promote the Urbanism labeler:

Tip: Here @fema uses the 🔁 repeat emoji to signal to users that it's a rotating post

Other things to think about

You can have the rotating posts come from your account, or you might set up a special feed account to create those.

Bear in mind that users are only going to see a rotating post every 8-10 posts on a feed, but to avoid them seeing the same thing over and over, you might want to load several so that they don't get repetitive.

Bluesky users can always hide posts by clicking on the three dots on a skeet:

You might want to let your feed users know in a pinned or rotating post that they can do that, if they find the posts annoying.