Testing upload

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

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?

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

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)??

Where does this tropic topic come from?

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback The current playground instance is so slow that sometimes I don't understand if there is an actual bug or if a request just timed out due to lack of capacity. Would it be possible to give it more juice?

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback When going to the Messages section, there is a weird drop down menu appearing that says "My feed". It would be better to just leave the navigation list and highlight Messages instead of changing the mode of navigation suddenly. It looks like I'd be sending a message to my feed if I'd push the "New message" button.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback The current playground instance is very slow for me, which maybe highlights some issues in the user interface quite nicely.After hitting the "post" button, input fields remain editableWhen having trouble uploading images I don't know if it is due to the server timing out or another problem.Creating circles and boundaries seems quite important to Bonfire but are very hard to try out becausethese options are only accessible via settings, which takes a long time to navigate to, and when I'm there I'm missing the context of the posts that would help me make decisions. I would want to put somebody in my "arch enemies" circle based on some post they wrote, but I cannot see any posts deep in the settings.it is possible to create new boundaries on the fly, just before posting, but from that minimal view you're missing the list of boundaries you already created and in general don't have the full view of what this is doing.Applied boundaries are designed to like "tags" that can be arbitrarily combined, but they are not in fact. The first "tag", which defaults to "Public" should not have a closing ×, because it makes no sense to delete it. Every post hast to be Public, Local, or only visible for mentioned users. So it should be a dropdown menu. Following boundaries might well be tags, but I don't understand how combining multiple boundaries would work. So if I add somebody to "work contacts" and "arch enemies" and in one boundary that user can read and not in the other, what will happen? How can I get an overview of who will be able to see and interact with the post? At least the users with conflicts should maybe be listed somehow?

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback More on image descriptions:It is easy to accidentally trigger Post by typing Ctrl +Enter when editing an image description. Maybe the whole process would justify a separate modal.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback When adding several images to a post and the describing them, the images might be cropped in a way that makes it impossible to understand what description should fit to what image if they are too similar. The example below is about a user interface detail in two different states. The important differences are not visible on the crop.In general, preview images should not be cropped but scaled down, and users should have a chance to look at a bigger-size version of these previews to verify these are the actual images they intended to share.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback These radio button look way too weird. I in general don't subscribe to the idea that every website has to use its own checkburrons and radiobuttons, but if you really want to make your own, design them as conservatively as possible.For instance, as a red-green blind user I have difficulties distinguishing the two states of the button. And even if would be able to clearly distinguish them, just seeing two of them with one being activated and the other not, it is really hard to decide which one is which.Radio buttons have been figured out since 1984, no need to experiment here.

Hey what's new on Bonfire?

I wonder if it is possible for a fedi project like bonfire to keep old user images on a post when a user uploads a new user image. Ideally, the user could choose when changing the user image if all previous versions of the image should be overwritten or kept.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback The user interface seems to suggest that I want to do serial posting most of the time, which I think should not really be encouraged.So after I push the "post" button, instead of showing me the result of my labor, bonfire shows a toast message with a link that would lead me there.My sense is that posting something should show me what I sent out into the world immediately, as others will see it. Because the composition and display can be quite different, you will spot typos etc. Also probably I want to see if somebody is reacting to what I posted.Just keeping me at the post composition makes it look like I should just keep posting, without concern for feedback.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback One of the best features in Mastodon/Hometown is "delete & re-draft" — would be good to have that on here as well.