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💬 Bubble is a Gemini bulletin board system with many influences from Station, Reddit, WordPress, and issue trackers like GitHub Issues.
Bubble v4.0: Muting, Tag Filters, Monthly Archive — bbs.geminispace.org has been upgraded to Bubble v4. This week's feature update adds some useful new tools and fixes several bugs. Muting You can now mute posts, subspaces, and individual users to hide them and notifications related to them. Together with follows, this allows tailoring what one sees in their Bubble feeds with quite a lot of precision. In practice, muting is a combination of silencing and blocking that is dependent on a couple...
💬 4 comments · 4 likes · 2023-06-06 · 8 days ago · 📌
More thoughts on editing — I went to communitywiki.org today and saw that they also had raw pages. Then I came back here and saw @stack's post about editing workflow. So, I noodled on this for a few minutes and here's where I ended up. One tricky part is that gemini is only for reading and titan is only for writing. Another tricky part is that the BBS software wants to allow editing even in clients that don't support Titan. That's cool, but I think the process with Titan could be smoother....
💬 3 comments · 2023-06-13 · 2 days ago
Editing quirk: if a post contains more than one 'line' (shift-cr is used to start a new line), it is no longer possible to edit anything but the final line using the Lagrange 'copy prev. line' prompt feature. Having posts that are not editable is a bit harsh. I realize this is more of a Lagrange issue (perhaps there should be a second option to copy anything highlighted into the prompt?), and those using standard browsers have to retype the whole post. As a possible work-around, you could...
💬 8 comments · 2023-06-12 · 3 days ago
Updated to Bubble v4.1. Trying out a new capsule title "BBS" instead of the domain name. Short and catchy? 🤔 Added a Display Settings page. The ASCII icons option was moved there. Added an option for shorter feed previews. Useful on mobile devices, for example. Added Yarn avatar. Fixed issue cross references not using issue IDs. Fixed a bug in preview text truncation.
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-08 · 6 days ago
Bubble Mobile UX/UI Personal Thoughts — Here are my thoughts about the homepage from a mobile perspective. I browse the Gemini mostly from my mobile and because of my age, I use a 140% zoom to read it. The side effect is the homepage becomes extremely long to scroll down. Personally I am not interested in reading the full preview in the homepage, whether if is desktop or mobile, I would prefer to have just a peak, something between 15/20 words. And often I am not still interested in reading...
💬 3 comments · 2 likes · 2023-06-07 · 7 days ago
Notifications sort order... Any reason it's not newest first? I feel I must be missing something here.
💬 5 comments · 2023-06-05 · 9 days ago
A couple Bubble questions — 1) What activity/content/posts of mine winds up in the "tinylog"? 2) Where can I change the following? Emptiness is a boundless canvas, an unconstrained....
💬 1 comment · 2023-06-03 · 11 days ago
A few more quick fixes. Now running Bubble v3.2: Division-by-zero error when viewing results of an empty poll. Reaction notifications are placed in the "@username" grouping.
💬 2 likes · 2023-06-02 · 13 days ago
Updated to Bubble v3.1. This is just a very small and quick fix for Notification Settings when one has disabled at least one of the feedback mechanisms. I slightly adjusted the email notifications by adding an extra line to separate the list of notifications from the bottom links, for extra clarity.
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-05-31 · 2 weeks ago
Bubble v3.0: Thanks and Reactions, Private Mode, Improved Issue Trackers — I have updated geminispace.org to Bubble v3.0. There has been lots of progress in many different areas. Feedback Mechanisms A key function of Bubble is to enable rich interactions that go beyond basic commenting. While feedback mechanisms such as Likes can be a nice way to show support and encouragement, they also have negative aspects: they encourage gamification and may turn posting into a popularity contest....
💬 3 comments · 8 likes · 2023-05-30 · 2 weeks ago
@skyjake How do I edit a text segment in a post which has more than one line? In my client I see a way to "paste preceding line" when I click edit. What do I do for multi-line edit? I think I'm just missing something.
💬 3 comments · 2023-05-26 · 3 weeks ago
Purge policy On the subspace listing page it says: Inactive and unused subspaces will be purged. What qualifies for this? I moderate one subspace that I do intend to maintain, but I want to make sure if I'm gone for a week that it doesn't get deleted.
💬 2 comments · 2023-05-26 · 3 weeks ago
Creating issue subspaces — There are a few subspaces such as Bubble-Issues that are for issue tracking instead of general discussion. It can't figure out how to create that sort of subspace. Is it not possible at this time?
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-26 · 3 weeks ago
Bubble updated to v2.2 — A slightly bigger patch with a revamp for notifications and some search improvements: Notifications are now systematically prioritized and grouped by "directed at you" and "followed". The former grouping includes, e.g., @-mentions, likes, and comments on your posts — things that might warrant a response — and the latter is for your followed subspaces, users, and posts. Notification labels were made more succinct because the list was getting a bit wordy. Improved search
💬 1 like · 2023-05-25 · 3 weeks ago
Would it be possible to add a bike avatar? 🚲
💬 8 comments · 2023-05-25 · 3 weeks ago
Exporting Bubble data in a "raw" format? — In addition to the human-readable Gempub archives, I've been considering various options for exporting your data out of Bubble in case someone wants to get their data out for other purposes. For example, one might want to use their posts as a basis for a personal capsule, or run some scripts to post-process them somehow. What would be the best "raw" machine-readable export format? Any good alternatives not listed?
💬 10 comments · 2023-05-25 · 3 weeks ago · 🗳️
Updated to Bubble v2.1. This is just a couple of quick fixes while I'm reworking the notifications a bit: Added Teacup avatar. Respect user's enabled notification types. All the flags weren't checked before... Fixed search results when there is a matching user.
💬 2 likes · 2023-05-25 · 3 weeks ago
Blocking Users and their Notifications — The Geminispace is quite chill compared to other communities. I hate to bring this up, but Bubble probably needs some sort of blocking feature to at least block notifications from people. A simple blocklist would do. An even stronger measure would be the ability to block the display of certain user's posts and comments. Given the experience with other social networks, it seems wise to act proactively and implement at least the first option.
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-23 · 3 weeks ago
Bubble v2.0: Fundamentals — GS.org has been updated to Bubble version 2. There is a bunch of new features and some bugfixes to improve the fundamental features of the system. Notifications Notifications are one of the key elements of the Bubble user experience, but they still had a lot of issues in version 1: redundancy and single-access links being the biggest annoyances. Both problems should now be largely resolved. History Your notifications now remain valid for up to one week, during...
💬 6 comments · 9 likes · 2023-05-23 · 3 weeks ago
Editing — The moveable segments mechanism for drafting a post is pretty neat. But sometimes you want to edit an existing section, and copy-and-pasting is a bit annoying. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but something I'd like is an option (maybe only after you enable it in your settings) to run a sed command over an existing segment (or all segments). Even nicer might be to have it be fully line-based, each segment a single line, so then you don't need a separate sed link for each segment and...
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2023-05-21 · 3 weeks ago
Hey there! Enjoying Bubble so far, if I can add another concern to the centralization debate, there's language representation. Are there any plans for internationalization (i18n) of UI strings? Either on a per user basis here on geminispace.org or for an entirely separate Bubble instance.
💬 1 comment · 3 likes · 2023-05-21 · 3 weeks ago
@skyjake can bubbles be used privately? I mean for private circles?
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-21 · 4 weeks ago
Not really an issue, just a request for tips. I wanted to post a photo, but the only format that went small enough was HEIC which doesn't seem to be supported here? I must be doing something wrong. Are there tips for making low-res photos that fit in the small-web?
💬 4 comments · 2023-05-19 · 4 weeks ago
Not really sure if that is my connection or the server, but I am getting a timeout message occasionally when browsing the site or posting something
💬 5 comments · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago
Q: Can there be more than one moderator per subspace? Can moderators be changed?
💬 1 comment · 2023-05-16 · 4 weeks ago
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