Dragan Espenschied
activity timestamp 3 years ago

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.
ivan
activity timestamp 3 years ago
@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) 馃憤

Dragan Espenschied
activity timestamp 3 years ago

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.
Mayel
activity timestamp 3 years ago
@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?