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The wait is over: Scheduling to Threads is now available in Buffer! 🧵✨ Start scheduling your threads and build your community with Buffer: buffer.com/threads

We just launched Bluesky support with Buffer and the landing page was a great demo of how to use various units for overlapping images. Let's start with the hero image. We want it to extend past the bottom of the hero section, without impacting the layout of the next section. To achieve these, we use (negative) margins with `rem` for a fixed overlap amount. We set a negative `margin-block-start` on the image, and match this amount with `margin-block-end` on the hero section. This allows us to control the overlap independent of the screen size. Further down, we have feature sections with a grid layout and images that we want to overlap surrounding content. These images need to proportionally overlap their containers as the screen (viewport) scales in size. This is best achieved with negative margins using the % unit, which is relative to the parent. We fine tune the overlap amount that scales proportionally to the viewport and parent container. We also set `pointer-events: none;` to prevent the image from blocking clicks.

Today, we've added Bluesky to Buffer! Bluesky is an important new social network pushing forward an era of decentralized social media with a focus on ownership and control. Bluesky are also contributing to a resurgence of the open web with social media protocols. And I appreciate that they're prioritizing simplicity, too. With Buffer, you can easily add Bluesky to the networks you're participating in. Bluesky is a special place, so I encourage you give it a try.

As a team, we’re very excited to see how decentralized social networks continue to grow and we’re getting educated and involved with platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads (with fediverse sharing). We’re also working on adding publishing for more decentralized networks within Buffer so you can have one central hub for all of your social media sharing needs (Bluesky scheduling coming very soon 👀).

If you need a break from socials, but don’t want people to know you’re taking a break from socials, we’ve got you covered. What’s your favorite Buffer feature at the moment? Duplicate posts, Threads scheduling, the Board view, and notification publishing are just a few favorites we can think of.

Something new is in beta this week 🦋👀

You heard it straight from the Threads team: your posts with links are not being downranked (unless you’re sharing un-safe links). You can watch the full recording from our webinar with Etienne Blanc, Product Marketing Manager at Threads here: https://buff.ly/4d323wm