Antoine-Frédéric
@af  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Feature request: a Bonfire extension to gamify reading books (or scientific articles).


A caveat IMHO would be to compare how many books one reads with their peers (or how good these books are, which I’m afraid would show through how many followers I have if I made a Bookwyrm account). On the other hand, the knowledge I’ll get by reading one is sometimes too speculative as a motivation.


It isn’t as if Bonfire worsened attention deficit… but it could give its users the additional energy/motivation boost that they’d need to do it.


@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
Antoine-Frédéric
@af  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Feature request: a Bonfire extension to gamify reading books (or scientific articles).


A caveat IMHO would be to compare how many books one reads with their peers (or how good these books are, which I’m afraid would show through how many followers I have if I made a Bookwyrm account). On the other hand, the knowledge I’ll get by reading one is sometimes too speculative as a motivation.


It isn’t as if Bonfire worsened attention deficit… but it could give its users the additional energy/motivation boost that they’d need to do it.


@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback
Antoine-Frédéric
@af  ·  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Another piece of feedback: I feel like broken thumbnails on Facebook, Twitter, and Mastodon are part of the global semantics meant to deprecate cognitive resources. It isn’t useful in itself; I guess the image is entirely downloaded anyway, but it forces the user to click on it, which gives them a sort of alert fatigue related to anything richer than about 120 words.


Please either show images as clickable attachments (XMPP style, you don’t download it unless you ask your software to do it) or show them entirely in the feed (honk style). Maybe set the latter as default and let the user define the former as an option.


@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback