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Today we learned that J., whom we have known for over three decades, has died of her own volition. The MS which had, over the last decade, confined her to a wheelchair and robbed her of most of her ability to move muscularly, finally diminished her experience of life to the point that it did not seem worth going on. She refused water and drink and any external aids to life... and she died.

We never knew J. well. She was a nodding acquaintance, albeit one who crossed paths with us on a regular basis, leading to a lot of nodding over the years. We don't have any profound observations to make about her character, about the course of her life, We knew that her marriage to S. had been difficult, that S. had behaved increasingly erratically over the years, and we'd heard rumors that he had moved out and further rumors that he had been institutionaized with dementia. All of this must have made J.'s life even harder than it would otherwise have been.

We can't say, given how slightly we knew J., that we will miss her (in any meanigful sense of that word). We can say that, as far as we could tell, she was a nice enough person. There will probably be moments in the years to come, walking through the entrance area of our building or through the park at the end of the street, that we will remember that she was once among us and note that she is no longer.

This may be a limitation of the current implementation. I've noticed when you a draft to post, if you navigate anywhere in the UI (click notifications from home), your draft post is cleared.

It would definitely be nice to have this persist in cache or at the very least float a pop up warning of losing your drafted content.

#bonfire_feedback

"It would be really exciting if making a Bonfire instance was as easy as setting up a Discord server or a Facebook group. I think it could make the platform more inclusive towards less digitally literate people."

That's why I was working on https://twitter.com/permanentcpu pre-covid

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A few other text fields seem to have the same issue. Tapping any field with a font size of less than 16px on iOS causes the page to zoom in.

Let's see if I can post pictures to this beta. Here's a picture of my Zippo lighter.

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In love with the lemonade profile theme 🍋💚 @BonfireBuilders @ivan I'd just like to centre profile Pic too 🤭

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Hello, it would be nice after having uploaded the photo (for both profile and background) to move it and adjust it into its dedicated space.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

I was clicked on my profile as I've just joined. I wrote my first post and expected to see it as the first thing to populate my timeline.

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Need my Cmd+Enter for quick keyboard-based posting.

Hm, it took me entirely too long to understand that the back button is like a browser back rather than a "leave this thread" back button. Users are trained for the latter, so perhaps this is an opportunity to have a think about going back through your history vs going back "home" as useful features and how the UI can do both

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Hi there! First post. My name is Toon. Also known on the #fediverse as https://toon.social/@toon@toon.social

Why people don't use native component. Now the web is full of made up HTML component which breaks completely usability.