Discussion

@ivan @mayel
This possiblity of a "visible only inside the instance" group may be quite useful for community work and coordination.
It will also put Bonfire in league with any channel based chat (CBC) but with a richer and more powerful feature set. 😉
Do you believe it may be a desirable use case? I can think of a few classic examples in our own case (an intentional semi rural community) and many others... 😁

I encountered this issue while using Bonfire:

After creating an account, clicked on the x on the "Hey Jon P, nice to meet you" to dismiss it, and immediately got a "Sorry the app encoutered an unexpected error" message.

I'm on Firefox 114.0.1, on a Mac, running PrivacyBadger and uBlockOrigin

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Also after I make a post, the "Posted" popup doesn't go away of its own accord and there's no obvious want to dismiss it (other than clicking on Show, which isn't what I want to do).

And one more, @BonfireBuilders #BonfireFeedback:

I got an error trying to add alt text to the above images.

Sorry, the function do_handle_event/3 in module Elixir.Bonfire.UI.Common.ReusableModalLive didn't receive the data it was expecting

So I tested ActivityPub federation with a blog post I made (https://océane.fr/la-maltraitance-numérique) and I got this error message:

> found duplicate ID "open_preview-" for component Bonfire.UI.Common.OpenModalLive when rendering template

(with the “this is fine” gif page).

#bonfire_feedback

It's frustrating how late stage capitalism also ruins lots of cool apps, and I'm not talking of Twitter/Reddit, but simple things like Instabridge, which was a simple way to share and find the password of public WiFi hotspots (eg. from cafes). Now the app also tries to also be your mobile browser, your VPN, your home screen, etc, and shows you a video advert right after your contribute a password... 😶

@ivan @lefterino My first impression is that this is a good idea. Are there any expected/unexpected downsides to this?

I encountered this issue while using Bonfire:

When clicking on the star to like a post, there is a popup saying "Not Found". After reloading the page, the post shows up as liked as expected.

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Bonfire UX and features are great @mayel and team, thanks for your work! 🙏

Btw, is there a way to make pages load faster? Thanks! #bonfire_feedback

@mayel @ivan when I try to star that post, I get a series of error messages.

I posted this on my federated account but I'll report here. snowdin.town/notice/AWmsURDe...

I took a look at Bonfire recently and it looks promising. It has the idea of Circles which is one of my most desired features on fedi, so you can organize your followers into meaningful groups and make posts visible to them. There's two things that I'm struggling with there though.

One is terminology, the interface has a feed for 'Activities' and a feed for 'Posts', I don't know what those mean. Similarly the permissions system ('Roles') uses multiple terms that are hard for me to remember ('Read', 'Interact', 'Participate', 'Contribute'). The last three in particular all sound like they mean the same thing to me.

The other problem I'm having is that these permission roles are themselves adjustable. You can open up each one and toggle individual actions. That's a pretty cool idea from a customization perspective but it means that the labels themselves are now meaningless. That is, 'Interact' will mean different things to each user. Also, these permissions operate at different levels. 'Request', 'Follow', 'Mention', and 'Message' apply to users, but the rest apply to posts. So when I'm creating a post and I set the permissions to 'Participate' for a given Circle, am I giving users new permissions to interact with my account? Or am I controlling their permissions just on that post? The blending of these levels is really confusing to me.

I think it's a great idea to build more precise permissions around requests and follows, but I think that should probably be a separate section of the config. Post permissions should be relevant only to posts. I think it might also be nice if these default permission categories were not configurable, so that they meant the same thing to everyone on the network. Custom categories could be created by the user if they want more fine-tuned options.

All in all I'm still pretty impressed and glad that someone is thinking about these things. I like the frontend a lot.

#bonfire_feedback

Apparently I can't follow this account from Mastodon, is that expected? It just stays stuck waiting for the follow to be accepted. #bonfire_feedback

@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)