A common behaviour from corporate semi-libre software like Android is to let users make many "candy" choices which don't include processing their data the way they wish to, or in Gandi's case managing free second-level eu.org-style domains, or in the case of the State, voting.

I've voted at every election since I'm 18, and I will continue to do so, but maybe it makes me enjoy being to the State what my cats are to me. Maybe that's a major case of internalized social structures (psychee/social structures dialectic) making people go to vote.

• a bug in how unseen notifications are counted
• we've set notifications (as well as messages) to automatically be marked as seen using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersection_Observer_API to do so only when they come into view (i.e when scrolling) and seems that's not getting triggered if you don't scroll. Needs more research...

I'm very excited about Bonfires Network. I should go to bed before I get too excited

The default font size may be quite small for sub 20/20 vision (that is, the majority of people). ;P

I'm in Firefox 91.10.0esr (64-bit) in Debian Linux

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Observation:

1. I see an outstanding number 1 over the "notifications" icon.
2. I assume it is the amount of unread notifications and that I should clearly see what notification remains unread.
3. I click on it.
4. I can't see which notification is unread (I thought I read them all).
5. That number and attention calling thing remains there and I can't take it out.

What am I overlooking or not understanding? Should I create a PR in github?

Info: I'm in dark theme, Firefox 91.10.0esr (64-bit) in Debian Linux.

#bonfire_feedback @BonfireBuilders

"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

I encountered this issue while using Bonfire:

The function get/3 in module Elixir.Access didn't receive data in a format it can recognise

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

https://sentry.io/organizations/bonfire-networks/issues/?query=96f7687d90e740d69bdf46a5755fc5cc

I was trying to at-mention a mastodon.social URI

If you’d like a hand with planning, carrying out, or analysing user research or usability testing, I’d be interested to find out more 😊

I really enjoyed reading the Bonfire team’s research on misinformation. It’s great to see a Fediverse platform investing in user research!

Are you planning on doing any more research as you go?

I’d be really interested to find out what community leaders who currently use Facebook groups, Discord, or another centralised platform think of the Bonfire instance creation process.

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.

Just as a matter of curiosity...

Could I put a table in a post?

Update: Well, as it turns out, maybe not. Trying to post table markdown (without this update) pops up this error:

The function tag_handler/4 in module Elixir.Bonfire.Tag.TextContent.Formatter didn't receive data in a format it can recognise 

I was listening to an audio supplement on the Criterion Collection disk of His Girl Friday, a Lux Radio Theater dramatization of The Front Page (among other things):

Announcer:

Hollywood, June 28 [, 1937]...

[Announces cast, then]:

We had hoped at this time to bring you Miss Amelia Earhart. However, she has not yet completed her sensational around-the-world flight, so she'll be heard instead next Monday evening on Lux Radio Theater, when she will have arrived by that time...

Nope

Letters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson

June 26, 2022

When today’s jurists talk of sending decisions about civil rights back to the states, they are echoing Stephen Douglas. “Citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting” is indeed precisely how democracy is supposed to work. But choosing your voters to make sure the results will be what you want is a different kettle of fish altogether.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-26-2022

my biggest gripe with mastodon is it's written in ruby which has some pretty horrible performance curves. BEAM is super fast

If I tap on the ”…” in the bottom-right hand corner of the post, nothing happens.

Some minor feedback. Testing on Firefox on an iPhone 11:

• the website field has autocorrect turned on. I typed in “www.” and it got autocorrected to “was.”
• the first letter of bullet points doesn’t get capitalised automatically.
• the post composer crashed 3 times when trying to write this post.

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.

Otherwise, the UI is looking gorgeous. At first I thought “what’s this all about? We already have Mastodon.” But now I see you’re trying to build a set of tools which can be mixed and matched to suit individual communities, and suddenly I’m very excited about that.

I’d definitely love to see how this progresses! I can see this being great for small communities if it’s easy to set up, can be easily tailored to suit the community’s needs, and is a really user-friendly experience.

Awesome stuff, it’s looking very promising! Gorgeous design, I love the whole Bonfire branding.

I’d prefer to have the tab bar on the bottom on mobile.

It took me a while to find the three-dot menu because it’s not in the top-right hand corner of the screen; instead, it’s underneath the tab bar.

Moving the tab bar to the bottom would make it easier to reach with my thumb, would be consistent with how native iOS apps work, and would place the three-dot menu in the top-right hand corner of the screen, which is a pattern I’m very used to.