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I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Bonfire does a lot of great things with single posts:

show them in a "timeline" view as they occur

according to who I follow

according to what topics I follow

according to the instance I'm on

personal messages

show them in a threaded view highlighting semantic connections

according to filters, such as searches for tags, or taking into account blocked users

It is everything that you'd want, but also a bit much. In particular, after seeing the threaded view once, I'm always having the impression that I am missing something when looking at a post. Bonfire allows for quite a rich context for every post, but most views present single posts. They might be parts of threads that I haven't visited before and therefore might misinterpret. I have to click on every post to see it in thread view to understand if I'm indeed missing something.

It would be great if each post would feature some information about its context. For instance, it could show a mini-map of the thread, or display metadata like "part of a conversation started 2022-09-19, 4 participaring users, 34 messages (3 unread)"

If threads were more of a basic unit users would interact with (rather than single posts), it could also be possible to mute a thread. For instance when all your friends start to talk about some sporting event that you're not interested in or whatever.

Things like that could encourage better discussions, as in slower, less repetitive, more interaction with other thread participants.

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I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Bonfire does a lot of great things with single posts:

show them in a "timeline" view as they occur

according to who I follow

according to what topics I follow

according to the instance I'm on

personal messages

show them in a threaded view highlighting semantic connections

according to filters, such as searches for tags, or taking into account blocked users

It is everything that you'd want, but also a bit much. In particular, after seeing the threaded view once, I'm always having the impression that I am missing something when looking at a post. Bonfire allows for quite a rich context for every post, but most views present single posts. They might be parts of threads that I haven't visited before and therefore might misinterpret. I have to click on every post to see it in thread view to understand if I'm indeed missing something.

It would be great if each post would feature some information about its context. For instance, it could show a mini-map of the thread, or display metadata like "part of a conversation started 2022-09-19, 4 participaring users, 34 messages (3 unread)"

If threads were more of a basic unit users would interact with (rather than single posts), it could also be possible to mute a thread. For instance when all your friends start to talk about some sporting event that you're not interested in or whatever.

Things like that could encourage better discussions, as in slower, less repetitive, more interaction with other thread participants.