One thing I really like about Bonfire is that the default font size on mobile is sensible. Also the messages are full-width.
Both stand in contrast to Mastodon, with it's weird layout. I can't stand having an un-collapsable sidebar!
Doug Belshaw
@dajb@campground.bonfire.cafe
"Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out." (Groucho Marx)
Doug Belshaw
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Several new layout and sorting options coming to the discussion page on Bonfire in the next release. Would love some feedback, such as:
- would you prefer them separated in three menus as in the screenshots, or all in one menu?
- any suggestions on clearer wording for some of the options? such as nested vs linear and the different chronological options...
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Several new layout and sorting options coming to the discussion page on Bonfire in the next release. Would love some feedback, such as:
- would you prefer them separated in three menus as in the screenshots, or all in one menu?
- any suggestions on clearer wording for some of the options? such as nested vs linear and the different chronological options...
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I think one list would be overwhelming!
Doug Belshaw
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Great News! Bonfire has made it to the final round of the Distributed Design Award 2023 🎉 Now it's time for the People's Choice Award, and your vote counts!
Stand with us by clicking the heart button on the upper right of the link below 💖 and share this post with your network 🔥
https://distributeddesign.eu/awards/entries/12424/
Just chatting with Ivan about a thing and posting this to test something.
Doug Belshaw
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🚀 Reflecting on a productive week focused on enhancing discussions on Bonfire!
Here our major improvements:
✨ Give a title to your discussions
📊 View discussion metrics for better insights
🔍 Read discussions seamlessly with an optimised legibility experience
✏️ Bonus: Edit posts!
Next week, we'll focus on federating threads and iterate with the community to squash bugs and enhance user experience.
@dajb @ivan @bonfire@indieweb.social Ah good point! Think it would be useful to have both, or only the original author there?
@mayel @ivan @bonfire@indieweb.social I can see the benefit of having both, but might make the UI unwieldy?
I guess if I wanted to ghost / silence, etc. the booster I'd click through to their profile?
@bonfire@indieweb.social Love the new add to circles feature!
Just now, on a post by @ivan that @mayel had boosted, I noticed something unexpected and wanted to ask if it was intended.
What happened: I clicked on the three dots to interact with the post and my options were to ghost / silence, etc. @mayel
What I expected: my options being to ghost / silence, etc. @ivan
(I've just checked and that is the default behaviour on Mastodon and Calckey)
Small thing, but in dark mode it would help if there was a border around the compose window (see screenshots for example of difference after I manually added one)
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
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I encountered this issue while using Bonfire: unable to add alt text
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
I've just filed a bug for what might seem like the world's most trivial thing @ivan
github.com/bonfire-networks/...
However, I think that having a delay from clicking the star icon to it turning yellow is likely to lead to frustration and/or people repeatedly clicking it because it "hasn't worked".
(you know when the UX 'bugs' are getting this specific that you're doing something right overall!)
(you know(you know when
I randomly came across this via HN and thought it was relevant to the above @ivan
I've just filed a bug for what might seem like the world's most trivial thing @ivan
github.com/bonfire-networks/...
However, I think that having a delay from clicking the star icon to it turning yellow is likely to lead to frustration and/or people repeatedly clicking it because it "hasn't worked".
(you know when the UX 'bugs' are getting this specific that you're doing something right overall!)
(you know(you know when
Also just changed 'bug' to 'UX'
I've just filed a bug for what might seem like the world's most trivial thing @ivan
github.com/bonfire-networks/...
However, I think that having a delay from clicking the star icon to it turning yellow is likely to lead to frustration and/or people repeatedly clicking it because it "hasn't worked".
(you know when the UX 'bugs' are getting this specific that you're doing something right overall!)
(you know(you know when
@jl I was neither fond with the current way of switching color mode and themes, it was quite bugged and confusing, it took some time but I think that's much better and clearer: loom.com/share/62342f100cf64... some minor issues (atm we have to reload the full page to active the choosen theme, maybe we'll find better ways later)
❤️ this - very thoughtful approach @ivan!
> When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition.
Good use of the above quotation by Marshall McLuhan in this article by L. M. Sacasas. They point out that we no longer access to coherent narratives, but rather find ourselves confronting "a cacophony of data points (videos, statements, claims, images, etc.)"
Which is why conspiracy theories abound.
Doug Belshaw
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🔥 🔥 new #bonfire documentation: bonfirenetworks.org/docs/ - Next we will start writing simple guides and tutorials about how to fork / customise or create new features on top of our framework 😊
Sharing start.coops.tech here as well - it's the MVP of a service to help people who might be interested in starting (tech) co-operatives 😀
I was going to say "I very much enjoyed" watching this video, but "enjoy" isn't the right verb. I guess the feeling is more like having someone with more experience around economics verbalising a feeling you have and giving insight as to why it's happening.
#bug When clicking on 'Notifications' I was presented with an 'Accept' button, but clicking on it produced an error (and I didn't know what it was for?
@dajb that's actually is a #feature, with a UX that makes it feel like a #bug 🤨 . The concept is to enhance transparency and let the users see the instance defaults and config, but of course without the possibility to edit them without the right permissions, but I agree with you that is still confusing that way
@ivan Oh I see, so if you click on the options you can see (but can't edit) the settings? I can't see the options at the moment at a more granular level! Interesting approach...
