I have a suggestion for Bonfire: two things:
- I'd suggest moving the 'Have some feedback?' box above 'Trending topics' as it's below the fold, even on my 3:2 screen.
- It would be great if I could press Ctrl+Enter to post from the compose box!
#bonfire_feedback @BonfireBuilders In selection of typeface, you could allow users to select their system default font
system-ui in addition to the ones you selected.
@Dragan_Espenschied @BonfireBuilders That's a great idea, although I'd call it "default system font" for those who would find "system-ui" a bit confusing!
GIF with transparent background
#bonfire_feedback @BonfireBuilders In selection of typeface, you could allow users to select their system default font
system-ui in addition to the ones you selected.
This playground instance of Bonfire seems to have slowed down quite a bit over the course of the day! I wonder if we could encourage some monthly contributions to beef up the server?
https://opencollective.com/bonfire-networks
Playing with Bonfire! Trying to see what's different from Mastodon… the UI seems to be identical!
@caesar Dig deeper...
@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.
Can see the value in encouraging 2FA but maybe after sign up there's a notification that you "haven't set up two factor authentication yet"?
Well, here is a test.
@sixtest here is a reply to your test
I don't actually have time to spend on a new social network right now, please discourage me from posting!
Well, here is a test.
Minor esthetic suggestion: when you scroll the timeline you have to keep the mouse on it. This highlights every post the pointer is on (so you can notice you can click it) and even if it's nice to see at first, when you read the timeline for a while, watching at the highlight going on and off quickly could become annoying.
I'd like if overlay effect could be an option you can disable in the settings or it should be possible to scroll the timeline while the mouse is somewhere else.
As it seems neither shows up in my Masto timeline?
@Dragan_Espenschied we've disabled federation on this playground instance, more about it here: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/meet_us_at_the_playground/#a-note-on-federation
And how does this look ("this" being a reply)?
As it seems neither shows up in my Masto timeline?
How does this look on Masto?
And how does this look ("this" being a reply)?
How does this look on Masto?
@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?
Oha I must have missed these interface options since I created my account on mobile, Thanks for pointing out the search configuration and profile preview.
I know it is hard to prioritize what is displayed on tiny screens, especially when your project is trying to do things differently than others.
Again, great effort! 🔥
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.
@Dragan_Espenschied @mayel
on "quoting" we can add a configuration to both show or hide by default the quoted comment on feeds, and in case it's hidden we can just add a link to the original thread at the end of the post (as the "show thread" button on masto) 👍
New place, new start, Bonfire up! 🔥
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 🙃
