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+# Bluesky × Software Mansion — Expo 55 / New Architecture Migration
+
+This document covers the outcomes we care about, how we'd like to work together, and how we'll measure success.
+This brief gives them the goals, constraints, and targets needed to determine all of the above. Much of this is open to discuss
+or change; the goal of this brief is to give a baseline.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Goals of the engagement
+
+Four goals anchor this work. Everything else serves these:
+
+1. **Reduce the technical burden** of maintenance and ongoing improvement.
+2. **Reduce reliance on patches.**
+3. **Remove or replace incompatible libraries.**
+4. **Remove or rework features** where doing so serves goals 1–3.
+
+From those, the outcomes that define success:
+
+- **Land Expo 55 / New Arch / Reanimated 4 across iOS, Android, and web** with **no
+  performance regressions** on our priority surfaces — and ideally measurable gains.
+- **Establish objective, repeatable performance measurement.** We do not have a process
+  for measuring performance objectively today. We want to come out of this with reasonable baselines and existing deltas.
+  This will help us with establishing perf practices within CI down the road.
+
+During the engagement, we'd propose two collaborative pieces:
+
+1. When a surface is slow or a component is hard to migrate, we want SWM to identify *why* and bring it back to us with options, unless there is a known/hardened workaround with low stakes.
+2. **A QA-driven discovery pass is welcome.** One model on the table: enable New
+Architecture, run a thorough QA pass across the app, enumerate the issues that emerge, then
+jointly prioritize them into fix-now / we-fix / backlog. We're open to SWM's preferred
+variant of this.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Performance: targets & success criteria
+
+We don't have an objective performance process today; establishing one is a goal of ours.
+The targets below are our starting success criteria, sourced from platform guidance
+(Apple talks, Android vitals), web vitals, arithmetic on frame budgets, and team practice.
+
+**These are a starting point.** We'd welcome SWM validating and refining them against real
+baselines on real devices, especially any that lean on judgment calls.
+
+### Hard-sourced targets
+
+| Metric                        | Target   | Borderline | Broken    |
+| ----------------------------- | -------- | ---------- | --------- |
+| Hitch time ratio (iOS)        | < 5 ms/s | 5–10 ms/s  | > 10 ms/s |
+| INP interaction latency (web) | < 200 ms | 200–500 ms | > 500 ms  |
+
+**Frame budgets:** 60 Hz ≈ 16.6 ms · 90 Hz ≈ 11 ms · 120 Hz ≈ 8.3 ms.
+
+**Android frames:**
+- *Slow frames* = 16 ms–700 ms. Excessive = > 50% of frames missing the 16 ms deadline per
+  session.
+- *Frozen frames* = > 700 ms. Excessive = > 0.1% of frames over 700 ms per session.
+
+### Engineering-best-practice targets
+
+| Metric                         | Target | Borderline | Notes                                                                                                   |
+| ------------------------------ | ------ | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Feed scroll UI FPS (60 Hz)     | ≥ 58   | 50–57      | Smooth within ~1 frame of refresh rate is the consensus bar.                                            |
+| Feed scroll UI FPS p10 (60 Hz) | ≥ 52   | 45–52      | p10 catches occasional jank the median hides. Generalized threshold.                                    |
+| Feed scroll UI FPS (120 Hz)    | > 110  | 90–109     | ProMotion can legitimately drop to ~80 under thermal load; expect false positives.                      |
+| JS FPS during animations       | ≥ 50   | 40–50      | Worklets run on the UI thread, so this is a JS-starvation / tap-response indicator, not scroll quality. |
+| Cold start TTI                 | < 2 s  | 2–5 s      |                                                                                                         |
+
+---
+
+## 3. Priority surfaces
+
+Our priority surfaces, ranked by importance:
+
+1. **Feed scroll**: the central performance concern. Reanimated wraps effectively every
+   list, and this is where the jank lives.
+2. **Lightbox**
+3. **Context menu**: measured as long-press-to-visible time.
+4. **Dialog / bottom sheet**
+5. **Pager**
+
+Baseline surfaces we specifically care about: **feed scrolling, lightbox, and composer.**
+
+**Specific area of interest is Reanimated in lists, and the pager.** We suspect the pager
+forces Reanimated into the scroll path for our lists. We'd value SWM's read on whether
+removing or reworking the pager would let lists shed Reanimated, and what that buys us.
+We're open to a significant rework here if the performance case supports it.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Device matrix & measurement methodology
+
+Device matrix (three tiers) to cover our usage bases:
+
+- **High-end iOS** (e.g., a recent ProMotion iPhone)
+- **Mid-range Android**
+- **Bottom-tier Android** — Go-class / ≤ 3 GB RAM
+
+**Per-device baseline captures:**
+
+- Feed scroll FPS during a 30-second flick
+- Context-menu long-press-to-visible time
+- Dialog-open frames
+- Cold-start TTI
+
+**Existing tooling to build on.** The repo already has `flashlight` + `maestro` perf
+scripts (`perf:test`, `perf:test:measure`, `perf:measure`) as a starting point.
+We're open to ideas on what to add/change/remove for this.
+
+**Understanding the perf delta.** We'd like to baseline across all three devices, then
+migrate a perf-critical surface (likely feed scroll) and remeasure — so we can see a clean
+before/after delta and understand the real performance gaps before sizing the rest of the
+work. Also open to a better method/surface of determining the deltas.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Open questions for SWM
+
+Not needed immediately, but comes to mind while thinking through the full engagement:
+
+- For **bottom sheets and video** — what are we doing that's already been solved upstream?
+- What **custom modules and patches** can be retired because Expo or the ecosystem now
+  covers them?
+- Given how heavily we lean on Reanimated in lists, **where's the biggest perf win** — and
+  is removing/reworking the pager part of it?
+- What **performance targets** would *you* set, given the baselines?
+- Which **surface should we pilot first** for the cleanest perf delta?
diff --git a/src/components/Lightbox/Lightbox.web.tsx b/src/components/Lightbox/Lightbox.web.tsx
index 641b2c3402..7cdc8b3853 100644
--- a/src/components/Lightbox/Lightbox.web.tsx
+++ b/src/components/Lightbox/Lightbox.web.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState} from 'react'
-import {Pressable, StyleSheet, View} from 'react-native'
+import {Pressable, ScrollView, StyleSheet, View} from 'react-native'
 import {Image} from 'expo-image'
 import {Trans, useLingui} from '@lingui/react/macro'
 import {FocusGuards, FocusScope} from 'radix-ui/internal'
@@ -226,13 +226,17 @@ function LightboxGallery({
         )}
       </View>
       {img.alt ? (
-        <View
+        <ScrollView
+          // Cap the overlay height so long alt text scrolls within the overlay
+          // instead of growing past the top of the screen and pushing the image
+          // out of view. Only scrollable once expanded.
           style={[
-            a.px_4xl,
-            a.py_2xl,
+            styles.altScroll,
             {backgroundColor: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.45)'},
             delayedFadeInAnim,
-          ]}>
+          ]}
+          scrollEnabled={isAltExpanded}
+          contentContainerStyle={[a.px_4xl, a.py_2xl]}>
           <Pressable
             accessibilityLabel={l`Expand alt text`}
             accessibilityHint={l`If alt text is long, toggles alt text expanded state`}
@@ -246,7 +250,7 @@ function LightboxGallery({
               {img.alt}
             </Text>
           </Pressable>
-        </View>
+        </ScrollView>
       ) : null}
       {imgs.length > 1 && (
         <div aria-live="polite" aria-atomic="true" style={a.sr_only}>
@@ -445,6 +449,14 @@ const styles = StyleSheet.create({
     padding: 16,
     boxSizing: 'border-box',
   },
+  altScroll: {
+    // Size to content like the View it replaced, rather than filling the
+    // column via ScrollView's default flexGrow.
+    flexGrow: 0,
+    flexShrink: 0,
+    // @ts-ignore web-only -sfn
+    maxHeight: '50vh',
+  },
   menuBtn: {
     top: 20,
     left: 20,