Loading these feeds is so slow! Leaving this payground for today. Life is too short to wait so long for the screen. Goodnight.
Yeah we're definitely looking into how to resolve the slowdown 🤞 Thanks for all your testing so far!
A bonfire builder. They/them.
I'm confused.
I haven't clicked <Share feedback> at all so, no, not that one. But is there a composer in the sidebar? Not in my sidebar, i think.
The only composer I've seen - writing a new post or replying to one - is a damn big one that occupies far more screen than it needs to do - 50% of the browser window area - with acres of white space, running down to the bottom of the browser window ( meaning that the drop-down menu on the <Public> button runs off the bottom of the window and is unreadable and inaccessible - if anything in fact lives there in the drop-down, apart from 'Public').
I would be very satisfied with a small composer in a sidebar, similar to Mastodon.
btw, what's the character limit on a post? Are they limitless? O dear 🙄
Oh, are you on mobile?
links in posts
I have a suggestion for Bonfire: it seems URLs are not turned into links unless they're at the start of a line? in any case, it doesn't happen consistently...
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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.
@Dragan_Espenschied @BonfireBuilders @barefoot_doc @LibertyBeta @dajbelshaw @ivan right, and my assumption is that of those 3 places, only the /write page "makes it look like I should just keep posting", no? if you're in your main feed what you posted does get added to the top, same if you're replying in a thread or message, guess I'm just worried of loosing context if a redirect is triggered...
@Dragan_Espenschied @BonfireBuilders @LibertyBeta @dajbelshaw
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.
Definitely, yes. Please put us back into the feed after we post.
are you talking specifically about using the page at /write (like when you click share feedback)? or also the composer in the sidebar?
For LibreWolf users, please, can somebody check if in the profile page or any user (i.e. https://playground.bonfire.cafe/@ivan) you see the avatars like the one in the image?.
I don't have many extensions on librewolf but on Firefox the problem doesn't show so it could be just me.
@SparkIt yeah that seems to be this issue: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/372
Paper linked in CoC describes FOSS/p2p contributors as "fungible" :)
https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/nordes2019/exploratorypapers/10/
@douginamug though I wouldn't mind being fungible sometimes, it'd be easier to take a few weeks off and go on a long hike or something 🙃
Hello Ivan, thank you for the Welcome! Here's my #bonfilre_feedback
Nice:
- It is great to have formatting options here! Very easy to use.
- The search is great! (Most masto instances I use have search disabled)
- It is good that content warnings are carried over into quotes and replies.
To improve:
- The default "quoting" option when replying to a post seems excessive. It is always possible to follow a link to the quoted post. Also it is possible to manually quote. (Maybe this could be done by default when copying/pasting text from the post you're replying to.
- It is nice to be able to switch in between identities, but I wasn't clear on signup what input field would become what piece of data. My expectation was that my "real name" would just be used for display, but it became my "user name" and is now part of the URL. Maybe show a preview of profile and URL while editing the signup information.
- Search is cool, as mentioned above, I think many masto instances have it disabled because of privacy concerns. It would be interesting to have users or identities having the option to opt out of being indexed by the local search.
- Images + CWs and images + quotes don't seem to work.
That's all for now, really enjoying the new effort.
@ivan @Dragan_Espenschied thanks for the feedback!
I'll start by just commenting on things you may have missed:
- You can opt out of search indexing in settings (and this interoperates with a similar setting on Mastodon, and possibly other apps)
- The create profile form asks for a name/pseudonym and a username, with a preview like you suggested. It does pre-fill the username field based on the name you enter, which you can then edit, maybe that feature is actually not helpful?
@mayel did it not mean the same then? Fungible has been part of monetary theory before then.
@douginamug yeah don't get me wrong, it sounds like an odd thing to say!
Yes, but I have to admit that I didn't record the exact error ... I would say that my validation code was no longer valid at the time of submission, and then I tried to re-generate one without changing the registration TOP code... Sorry I wasn't very conscientious about evaluating the error.
But finally, I found it confusing to have to create this two-factor authentication directly on the account creation form ... From an interface point of view, it might be more smooth to provide it on a second step, maybe after email confirmatinon page ?
@alexisjanvier @BonfireBuilders no worries, thanks!
Yeah that's a good point, I wanted to experiment with it being part of the signup flow rather than a power-user thing hidden in settings that only a minority would look for and enable. But yeah after email confirmation may make sense.
Hi, just testin' here! Looks great!
@lynn good to see you here 😊
ran into an error when I tried to delete a root post. deleting a comment to that post seemed to work fine though
@andrew @BonfireBuilders thanks, was the post deleted or not? any error message?
I have a suggestion for Bonfire:
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
there’s currently no visual indicator that something is working in the background to load more posts, or make a post, after clicking the relevant button. It leaves a few seconds of wondering whether the tap/click registered.
@s0 @BonfireBuilders do you not see a progress bar appear at the very top of the page?
Paper linked in CoC describes FOSS/p2p contributors as "fungible" :)
https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/nordes2019/exploratorypapers/10/
@douginamug quoting papers from 2014/2015, before any NFTs, blockchain stuff has the annoying habit of taking over and ruining words, like "crypto"
two-factor authentication
I had a problem with two-factor authentication (using Bitwarden as OTP) when creating my account. So I created my account without thinking that I could activate it later. But I can't find the option to activate the double authentication in my settings
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
@alexisjanvier @BonfireBuilders yeah that's a todo: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/360
curious what issue you had? was there an error?
@oct we've drafted an issue to create your custom theme (we use daisyui and tailwindcss under the hood, which makes it a pretty much easy task): https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/355
wondering if you were referring to this or just a plain textarea to inject any kind of css into the platform ?
@oct You have a point, since themes are simply a collection of colours (see example below) we could actually have a UI in settings where each users could customise the colours to create custom themes (and potentially then share them for others to use).
{ "primary": "#fde047", "secondary": "#fb923c", "accent": "#1FB2A6", "neutral": "#191D24", "base-100": "rgb(30, 41, 59)", "base-300": "rgb(15, 23, 42)", "base-content": "rgb(226, 232, 240)", "info": "#3ABFF8", "success": "#36D399", "warning": "#FBBD23", "error": "#f15b5b", }
When you're browsing a timeline (e.g. the local instance) and you get a notification (e.g. new follow) the feed disappears until you clear the notification.
@dajbelshaw @BonfireBuilders thanks, that looks like a recent regression 😅 issue created: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/383
Hello there
@Wayne_Gibbons welcome!
@dumpsterqueer @oct worth a try!
and maybe enabling horizontal scroll? maybe combined with a way to "full screen" the thread like we can do for compose?
