Ah, ok... mi era sfuggito! 😅

As someone who’s new to the city I live in, I wish there was a solid alternative to Facebook Groups. There are a lot of local groups which you need a Facebook account to access if you want to see their events.

I’ve been considering starting my own online litterpicking group for my local area. I’d like to post pictures and updates and organise litterpicking events in my local area, but I’ve struggled to find a decent alternative to Facebook groups. “Podia” seemed about the closest thing, but it’s paid if you want a custom domain, and it’s not really aimed at local community groups.

I haven’t seen anything on the Fediverse which looks approachable for casual users who are used to Facebook. It looks like “groups” as a whole is a work-in-progress on several Fediverse platforms.

I’d be really interested to see if Bonfire can fill that gap in time.

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uhm you have a point by saying that the dropdown menu that says "my feed" may confuse the user 🤔 🧐

uhm Are you suggesting to divide Feeds (my, local, federated) from Notifications / Messages / favourites ?

ps. just to add more stuff in this thread, as part of the work we're doing for CoS, we will soon release topics (which will include much of the features we were working on moodlenet btw) - and we wanted to add to that navigation also topics the current user subscribed to...

see the image:

ps. It actually makes sense to remove the "public" - and I understand this can generate confusion.

Every post can have one of Public | Local | mentions boundary, but they can have also just 1 custom boundary without being public | local | mentions, or they can be public + 3 custom boundary, etc...

I have a suggestion for Bonfire: while I'm all for experimenting with the UI, having eight different menu options together is... a lot!

Notifications, message, and favourites are qualitatively different, I would suggest, from feeds (my, local, federated). I'd expect to access settings and the ability to logout from my profile, perhaps? 😀

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

When going to the Messages section, there is a weird drop down menu appearing that says "My feed". It would be better to just leave the navigation list and highlight Messages instead of changing the mode of navigation suddenly. It looks like I'd be sending a message to my feed if I'd push the "New message" button.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

• The current playground instance is very slow for me, which maybe highlights some issues in the user interface quite nicely.
• After hitting the "post" button, input fields remain editable
• When having trouble uploading images I don't know if it is due to the server timing out or another problem.
• Creating circles and boundaries seems quite important to Bonfire but are very hard to try out because
• these options are only accessible via settings, which takes a long time to navigate to, and when I'm there I'm missing the context of the posts that would help me make decisions. I would want to put somebody in my "arch enemies" circle based on some post they wrote, but I cannot see any posts deep in the settings.
• it is possible to create new boundaries on the fly, just before posting, but from that minimal view you're missing the list of boundaries you already created and in general don't have the full view of what this is doing.
• Applied boundaries are designed to like "tags" that can be arbitrarily combined, but they are not in fact. The first "tag", which defaults to "Public" should not have a closing ×, because it makes no sense to delete it. Every post hast to be Public, Local, or only visible for mentioned users. So it should be a dropdown menu. Following boundaries might well be tags, but I don't understand how combining multiple boundaries would work. So if I add somebody to "work contacts" and "arch enemies" and in one boundary that user can read and not in the other, what will happen? How can I get an overview of who will be able to see and interact with the post? At least the users with conflicts should maybe be listed somehow?

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

More on image descriptions:

It is easy to accidentally trigger Post by typing Ctrl +Enter when editing an image description. Maybe the whole process would justify a separate modal.

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

When adding several images to a post and the describing them, the images might be cropped in a way that makes it impossible to understand what description should fit to what image if they are too similar. The example below is about a user interface detail in two different states. The important differences are not visible on the crop.

In general, preview images should not be cropped but scaled down, and users should have a chance to look at a bigger-size version of these previews to verify these are the actual images they intended to share.

Just peeked at the site.

As my grandmother used to say: "Oy gevalt!"

It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam

people are enervated not just by the Sisyphean pointlessness of their individual labors but also by the fact that they’re working in and for a society in which, increasingly, they have zero faith or investment. The future their elders are preparing to bequeath to them is one that reflects the fondest hopes of the same ignorant bigots a lot of them fled their hometowns to escape. American conservatism, which is demographically terminal and knows it, is acting like a moribund billionaire adding sadistic codicils to his will.

Everyone knows how productive you can be when you’re avoiding something. We are currently experiencing the civilizational equivalent of that anxiety you feel when you have something due the next day that you haven’t even started thinking about and yet still you sit there, helplessly watching whole seasons of mediocre TV or compulsively clicking through quintillions of memes even as your brain screams at you — the same way we scream at our politicians about guns and abortion and climate change — to dosomething.

So well written, I couldn't agree more 👍

Hello, Bonfire denizens! #firstpost

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