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 editableWhen 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 becausethese 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?
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...
Re. Circles and Boundaries
to answer your last point: In the next releases we've planned to add a summary preview, which appears (optionally ?) right before the user publish a post. Such preview should show how permissions are applied to all the users / circles involved, after having merged them together ( when multiple are selected ).
p.s. We're very aware that circles and boundaries needs a ton of work, to end up with a usable flow that empower the user toward such space of flexibility without overwhelming them, I expect lot of iterations and would be amazing to do several design sprints or anything that would involve community participation for such critical features - any feedback on this is more than welcome!
Bearing in mind that:a) I'm not a developer; andb) in these matters, I mostly don't know what I'm talking about...If there is a question of whether or not to include certain functionalities in "circles and boundaries" might it not make sense to provide users with pre-configured "beginner" settings which anticipate the most likely use cases of new, non-technical users -- along with an "advanced" configuration option for people who understand in a finer-grained way what they want?Whether such an arrangement succeeds or not will depend, of course, on how it is presented to the user (interface, vocabulary, documentation, prompts) as much as its inherent flexibility and usability.
Display issue: indentation of bullet points set in the editor is not preserved when post is displayed. In the post editor it is possible to indent bullets by hitting tab , but on display all bullets are at the same hierarchy level.
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
Manual federation enabled