Discussion

I've captured this on ChangeMap but it won't show up until moderated: https://changemap.co/bonfire/bonfire/

As it seems neither shows up in my Masto timeline?

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.

Hi, just testin' here! Looks great!

I have a suggestion for Bonfire:

@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

1. the limitation of names to minimum 3 chars doesn’t have any technical basis. I like going by s0. Why is my profile name required to be 3 characters long?
2. the post-email confirmation account creation form profile info field gets cleared if there was an error in other fields, which may have had long text typed in it.
3. on iPad safari landscape view and similar viewports, the share feedback button on the bottom of the right column is sometimes scrolled offscreen and inaccessible. Otherwise sometimes instead the search bar at the top is inaccessible.
4. there’s no clear indication of how and when the automatic formatting is applied in the post view — for example turning this into a numbered list without asking first, changing the indentation, etc… what if I didn’t want that?
5. The post field is very long by default on the /write page, even with quite short content actually in the field. It leaves a lot of white space between the post and the actual post button.
6. the “upload an image” description that appears over the attachment button is cut off by the edge of the middle column and illegible.
7. Pasting an image into the rich text field results in a big empty rectangle but the image doesn’t seem to render here.
8. there doesn’t seem to be a way to add image descriptions?

Yes, it is. I have to scroll down to see it.

I'm on mobile, Firefox on android. Had an issue signing up that the confirm button was cut off. Ah, also now as I try to send this post... I have to click somewhere else to get the keyboard out of the way, can't scroll further down.

I just noticed the great variety of UI themes in the settings!

The included themes are nice, but having an option to inject custom CSS would probably be a nice addition too

and maybe enabling horizontal scroll? maybe combined with a way to "full screen" the thread like we can do for compose?

great idea 😊 I'm already very impressed with how deeply they can be nested so far

Here's a test gif :)

Some notification related bugs I encountered:

• follow notification clears the home feed except for the "new follow" post
• when composing a post reply and a notification comes in, the frontend refreshes and the "reply to" post is cleared. Can be reattached though, by clicking on the reply arrow once more. Posts field is kept open and post text is saved.

Hi