Hello? Is this thing on? Hello? Hey ho let’s go!
@Frank it is - let's go!😀
This video, made by historian Heather Cox Richardson a few hours after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday before the House Select Committee investigating January 6, is worth viewing (at least by concerned Americans) in its entirety.
If I have grabbed the link below correctly, however, the video should start playing a little after the 36-minute point. At this point, having summarized and interpreted Hutchinson's testimony, and having added a few comments on the SCOTUS Dobbs decision, and then offering some historical clarification on how democracies die, she adds comments about some of the things she thinks American citizens will have to do to preserve democracy.
Since her thinking begins to get at the problems I have tried to address with my #seizethemeansofcommunity hashtag I thought I'd provide a link that started you at that point.
Some notes:
- She seems to be unaware of efforts like Bonfire and of the available Fediverse, open source, self-hosting options available so, to the extent that she addresses online responses she tends to assume that people will have to avail themselves of platforms like FB and Twitter and the like.
- The link below is to a YouTube video, accessed through an instance of Invidious to minimize tracking. The YouTube video is a repost, I believe, to a Facebook video in a group she maintains, an indication IMO of a certain lack of awareness on her part about all the forces that are hacking away at democracy.
- Her comments do touch on what I consider to be an important point: how our elevation of heroes tends to come at the expense of our understanding of the important parts communities of people have played in social, political and cultural progress over the last century.
So here we are. Kicking the tyres. Trying what’s possible. Bonfire is a nice name and gives a promise for future ambitions. Like it.
Hello? Is this thing on? Hello? Hey ho let’s go!
thanks @tychi @BonfireBuilders
yes it was already flagged (but it's good to know anyway to better prioritize it)
you can follow progress on this issue here:
https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/392 👍
Thank @ivan! 😊
I think the weird font issue I was getting here is that it was using the dyslexia font on desktop but when I tried to set it to other fonts it didn't change it.
Great font if you need it but it has the opposite effect on me I find it extremely hard to read
But there's a difference between "this is just the font being used" and "there are other fonts it's just weirdly not switching" so that's good
I think the weird font issue I was getting here is that it was using the dyslexia font on desktop but when I tried to set it to other fonts it didn't change it.
I have a suggestion for Bonfire:
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
not sure if this a duplicate but:
reproduce:
- scroll down down down the feed
- click a post
- go back to feed
expected:
- be in the same place in the feed; maintaining context
actual:
- be at the beginning of the feed; losing context
thanks @tychi @BonfireBuilders
yes it was already flagged (but it's good to know anyway to better prioritize it)
you can follow progress on this issue here:
https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app/issues/392 👍
some preliminary feedback, in no particular order
- animations that happen on page change - talking specifically about the user mini-profile above the textbox and the buttons inside - are distracting and not on elements that attention should be drawn to. in the instance of the buttons, it just makes them unpleasantly blurry as long as the animation is playing.
- when the textbox is expanded, you're hit with a large portion of your screen on a light background, even in dark mode. personally, i'd re-theme the textbox as a whole to fit in with the dark theme better.
- when the textbox is expanded, the dropdown for the visibility of the post goes offscreen. conversely, when it's collapsed, the tooltips get clipped when expanding outside the column. not just that, when your post gets long enough, it just goes off-screen.
- typing into the expanded textbox feels quite unresponsive compared to the sidebar version.
- copy-pasting certain markdown syntax out of a text editor works, others don't - i've noticed headers work, but lists don't.
- CSS in the WYSIWYG text editor is inconsistent, most noticeable for lists such as this one
- the Share feedback button (which i just clicked) opens up a different post form, with: weird scrolling behavior for long posts, the tooltips still getting clipped when overflowing the column, and the visibility picker having the exact same text color as the background and ending up invisible.
- deleting a post gives three separate errors (popup before & after page refresh, inside column), but the post is deleted.
- searching seems incredibly buggy - clicking on a trending topic shows only a few posts & gets erased when switching category, searching on the top right yielded some better results (i think), but now that i've tried it again while writing this, it doesn't do anything
- lastly (for now), on the same page changes that trigger the bounce animation (inconsistent too, not good) erase your textbox, which is quite unfortunate.
some words of encouragement
i really like what you're going for here, from the conceptual level to the implementation so far - haven't looked too deep, but the tech stack seems good, especially the focus on serverside rendering.
i think modularity is useful in many applications, but specifically in the fediverse, i believe it to be extremely important. i'm not an activitypub user, but in my slight testing in the past, i've encountered incompatibilities between different applications. i'm hoping that bonfire with its modular approach can give instance owners or even users the tools to bridge the gaps in the protocol and the feature sets of different applications.
i'm also quite interested in zappa, and while i think some of the goals are quite a ways off (personal AI?), i believe the output can be quite useful to community managers, even outside of the fediverse community.
cheeky feature requests
- aforementioned retheming for the text box.
- different favicon for the playground compared to the blog, i can't tell which tabs are which while tabbing around right now
- turning off wysiwyg in the text editor, but with still working markdown
hope you enjoyed reading this post as much as i enjoyed writing it. sorry for the lack of capitalization, i'm too lazy to reach for the shift key
some first replies:
- those animations are included into our css framework (we use daisyui, I need to check if we can optionally disable them)
- good point!
- the boundary dropdown will be soo refactored, as we're working on adding custom boundary (see this: github.com/bonfire-networks/... )
- didnt noticed so far
- you're right, that's because we're using Quilljs a wyswyg editor based on html, rather than md -> in the medium term we'll add the possibility to configure your own editor (quilljs / prosemirror / ...) or to go with a simple textarea, quill was the easier to start with, but probably prosemirror will be the best default in the long run
- same as above
- ack!
- ack!
- ack!
- we've an open issue for that: github.com/bonfire-networks/...
I have a suggestion for Bonfire:
@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
not sure if this a duplicate but:
reproduce:
- scroll down down down the feed
- click a post
- go back to feed
expected:
- be in the same place in the feed; maintaining context
actual:
- be at the beginning of the feed; losing context
Heyoooo
been surfing the fediverse for a couple years now across a few instances. checking out this new tech :)
how's everyone doing today?
Hey @BonfireBuilders - would it be possible to get an edit button/option for posts? I just made my #firstpost, and realized I needed to add something. #bonfire_feedback
hello @stadjodes, several participants already asked for this, we have noted down on our roadmap here: changemap.co/bonfire/bonfire... 👍
You should be able to add a sort-of title to a post by clicking the CW button. You can also give a name to an entire thread by clicking the top-right button when viewing a thread. And you should be good to go for Vietnamese on Transifex, thanks 😊
Wow. This is awesome. I am in love with this project now. Thank you
Trying out a video embed just for giggles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPogeNhEoQ
I mean, who doesn't need to see Chris Evans playing with puppies?
@mayel @dajbelshaw Seconded! Even if it is a delete/re-draft, some way to edit posts would be great.
Hello Bonfire community! I'm here to chew gum and check this out, but I just brushed my teeth, so I guess I'm checking this out.
Hey @BonfireBuilders - would it be possible to get an edit button/option for posts? I just made my #firstpost, and realized I needed to add something. #bonfire_feedback
Hello Bonfire community! I'm here to chew gum and check this out, but I just brushed my teeth, so I guess I'm checking this out.
I just logged back here after a few days, and what do I see? Federation is enabled! Nice!
I don't think so? @BonfireBuilders
excited to announce on bonfire that yesterday @bea brought to the world our daughter Aurora ❤️
Congratulations!! And what a beautiful name!
