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@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.

Display issue: indentation of bullet points set in the editor is not preserved when post is displayed. In the post editor it is possible to indent bullets by hitting tab , but on display all bullets are at the same hierarchy level.

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 editable
• When 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 because
• these 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.

Definitely liking the new composition interface using the same color scheme as the rest of the service.

Hey what's new on Bonfire?

There are many different views from which I can write a post. Now I am replying to your post from my notifications. When I hit "Post" I'm not seeing my post in context, I just get a Toast with a link to it.

Same from the main timeline view, and the /write view.

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.

Also the default banner picture looks a bit apocalyptic. Less like bonfires on mountain tops, but like volcanos. An abstract pattern would be better.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

The default avatar pictures seem to depict robots mostly. That sends a weird message I think.

Also their style doesn't fit to bonfire, you should be a squirrel or a bear instead, if you're not going for totally abstract default avatars.