We've started working on #coordination app - a simple task tracker extension.

Here some first mockups: design.penpot.app/#/view/a90...

this makes a lot of sense, especially since our thread UX is not the flat standard one, when a user replies from the timeline, they don't know in which layer of the tree they're replying to.

There is always a balance to find between overwhelming the feed showing too much info per single post and not giving enough context to the user (as it is now in bonfire and most of the social networks i'm aware of)

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 occur
• according to who I follow
• according to what topics I follow
• according to the instance I'm on
• personal messages
• show them in a threaded view highlighting semantic connections
• according to filters, such as searches for tags, or taking into account blocked users

It 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.

You should also notice snappier navigation between feeds and discussion threads, especially when clicking the back button to return to the feed after having read a discussion (where you'll instantly be back where you were, rather than the feed being reloaded like before).

As always, please share any feedback or issues!

The +bonfire playground has been updated with a few fixes and improvements. My new favourite screen is this one which feels like a forum focused on your interests: playground.bonfire.cafe/topi...

Hey @ivan, I love the way this is heading! Some thoughts in a Loom video - would love to read / watch other people's thoughts/feedback as well :)

https://www.loom.com/share/638904c5ff394f30b3e32d81b114f619

Our initial design system is on penpot (anyone with a penpot account can comment on it 😊 )

https://design.penpot.app/#/view/a9078ff0-0f0d-11ed-9552-f940e3befd53?page-id=a9078ff1-0f0d-11ed-9552-f940e3befd53&section=interactions&index=0&share-id=28b8bd10-2786-11ed-9977-c67f7655c7b3

It is not a fully fledged design system yet, we started from the main views and layouts, thinking in particular at how to handle multiple extensions together (eg. social and topics) and including a dashboard to summarize the user digital presence.

It's also a step toward co-designing bonfire in a more partecipatory way - as new features or UX/UI improvements will be first announced over our design system to gather feedbacks, before being implemented.

To add/remove extensions you'd have to set up your own instance of Bonfire (the easiest in that case is using one of the predefined "flavours" which come with different extensions, for example the one called "cooperation").

Hi, nice to be here.

And can I install extensions?

If #android users felt like they owned their phones, they'd start to do silly things like wanting to remove software and services they don't use. So we need to replace them every few years. Android is a sort of paid service and we get a new phone for "free", that we don't actually own.

yeah, a known issue with how content is formatted by the editor 👍

Thanks! Will surely do. :)

BTW, a #bonfire_feedback: the link to the video is not expanding in site, not even becoming a link... Shouldn't it be?

Thanks again... :D

You might also find this interview interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfwkTgEpmE

@ivan @EduMerco

While not happy, "Being the change" by Peter Kalmus gave me a lot of peace in a very budhist way. I am about to finish it and very happy to found it. :)

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Thanks!!

That's interesting. You'll notice that you have an automatic circle with all the people you follow, and since we've talked about the possibility of optionally sharing circles as lists (with certain boundaries applied) in future, this would then become possible.

Oops we have two allow-lists, one of extensions and one of mime types, I'll merge them so we avoid this confusion in future.