It does!

Testing upload

It seems like it is not possible to upload images at the moment? #bonfire_feedback

Oomph I can imagine how difficult that is in a federated setting.! Maybe a balance can be found that just gives a rough sense of the "context size" of a post instead of being very exact about the whole thread metadata?

My sense is that commercial social networks have a high interest in providing minimal context. Minimal context increases engagement because users cannot figure out what has already been said in a discussion. Discussions most of the time look as if everything is still very "open" even if hundreds of messages already exist. The most "successful" posts on commercial social media work best without requiring any context. Such posts can be easily algorithmically processed, and presented to users at any time in any other context. Even the slightest improvement in that era would make bonfire stand out. The current nested thread view is already a great contribution.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback Bonfire does a lot of great things with single posts:show them in a "timeline" view as they occuraccording to who I followaccording to what topics I followaccording to the instance I'm onpersonal messagesshow them in a threaded view highlighting semantic connectionsaccording to filters, such as searches for tags, or taking into account blocked usersIt is everything that you'd want, but also a bit much. In particular, after seeing the threaded view once, I'm always having the impression that I am missing something when looking at a post. Bonfire allows for quite a rich context for every post, but most views present single posts. They might be parts of threads that I haven't visited before and therefore might misinterpret. I have to click on every post to see it in thread view to understand if I'm indeed missing something.It would be great if each post would feature some information about its context. For instance, it could show a mini-map of the thread, or display metadata like "part of a conversation started 2022-09-19, 4 participaring users, 34 messages (3 unread)"If threads were more of a basic unit users would interact with (rather than single posts), it could also be possible to mute a thread. For instance when all your friends start to talk about some sporting event that you're not interested in or whatever.Things like that could encourage better discussions, as in slower, less repetitive, more interaction with other thread participants.

@BonfireBuilders congrats on improving the playground's performance so much, quite snappy now!

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback Increasing the border-radius of toggles and radio buttons to 2px makes them look much nicer on 1:1 pixel density displays. The 1px border radius exposes some unpleasant aliasing.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback In this screen modal for selecting applicable boundaries, I'd suggest using the + symbol only for creating new boundaries, and checkboxes / radiobuttons for picking what boundaries to apply.

Who will see this?

Interesting! So it is like usenet newgroups a bit.I understand "channel" has a one-to-many connotation that you probably want to avoid. But isn't this like "groups" then?How would the hierarchy be formed?

I think it makes a big difference that the topic "acts" like a regular "user" account but is stewarded by potentially many users. Why don't you just name this "channels"?

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback The identity that wrote a post shouldn't get notifications about that same post.

I agree boundaries is not an ideal term, but not because it is abstract, it just doen't fit 100%. Bounded posts are not changing their shape, or growing or shrinking in size. They have certain rules about who can see and interact with them. It is like every post can be its own little forum. My suggestion would be rules or access.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback +Tropic_the_Topic It seems strange that the topic view doesn't displays nested comments.What is a topic, a more "stable" place for discussion and moderation (which would benefit from nesting), a collection of things that belong together (more like tags), or an automated user (as topics are "boosting" posts)??