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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 v6.0: Atom Feeds, Expanded Help — This Bubble feature update is a smaller one as we're still in the summer vacation period, but there are a couple of useful additions. Atom Feeds You can now get an Atom feed of All Posts, subspaces, user feeds, issue tracker feeds, and tag-filtered feeds. In other words, everything that was available as a Gemini feed can now also be accessed as an Atom feed. These new feeds contain the...
💬 9 likes · 2023-07-18 · 2 months ago · 📌 #release
I just found out how to give thanks to a specific comment in a thread, you have to click on the user link above the comment (that was not obvious to me)
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-09-26 · 3 days ago
Auto-paragraph-break feature? I've been editing a lot lately, and automatically breaking paragraphs for editing may be a good thing. When writing a quick post, it is tempting to break up paragraphs with Ctrl-Enter. Whil it works visually, editing such posts requires manually copying the post and pasting it into the edit dialog; LaGrange's 'paste previous line' deletes everything but the previous line! The editor allows paragraph-at-a-time editing, but only if you have the foresight to enter...
💬 2 comments · 2023-08-28 · 4 weeks ago
Mail frequency, or in other words Daily Digests — I appreciate when services provide a 'daily digest' consisting of all of the day's updates, rather than periodic notifications throughout the day. I'd like to request that users' email settings include a frequency variable, or some flag that would make it so that I only get notified of Bubble updates once per day.
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-08-28 · 5 weeks ago
RFC: Timezone in Bubble for user profiles? — I was thinking about a user-configurable timezone in Bubble profiles. Not to change the displayed dates, but just to show others the time difference to themselves. I think Github users can have this on their profiles. Then other users, who have setup their timezone, can optionally see the time difference in comments, maybe next to the username. I'm not sure if this goes against the somewhat slower pace in Geminispace compared to the (realtime) web....
💬 2 comments · 2023-08-21 · 5 weeks ago
Can the "edit form" be pre populated with the original text to be edited? I am new to the gemini protocol, and do not know if that is even possible given the minimalistic requests and responses it supports.
💬 1 comment · 2023-08-17 · 6 weeks ago
Uploading pictures to the /s/Photography -- experiencing some weirdness. I haven't fully figured it out, but Dragging image file onto upload dialog requires hitting the upload button twice (first time nothing happens) I lose title or caption almost every time. Have to look more carefully at how that happens, will report.
💬 View post · 2023-08-14 · 6 weeks ago
A nitpicky suggestion: When viewing comments, the final (generated) line that shows the date and 'days ago' runs right into the text. It would be a little more readable if it were indented, perhaps with a couple of dashes or one of those dots... -- 2023-07-18 3 weeks ago Also, sometimes BBS does not add that line to a comment... What's that about?
💬 2 comments · 2023-08-11 · 7 weeks ago
Hierarchical subreddit system — Has anyone seen this before? [https link] Seems to be some sort of hierarchical subreddit system.
💬 2 comments · 2023-08-05 · 8 weeks ago
BBS has been updated to Bubble v6.3. Summary of changes since v6.0: Fixed issues with inserting and moving segments in the composer. Particularly when inserting content with "Move/actions", the new segment would not end up in the right position. Fixed updating the post preview after moving or deleting segments. If a published post becomes empty after editing (removing title and all segments, with no comments), the post is automatically unpublished. Strip all whitespace from the end of...
💬 5 likes · 2023-07-28 · 2 months ago
Request for a downvote button The upvote button is a great feature to put interesting and quality posts to the top when sorting by hot. What constitutes quality is subjective, therefore having the ability to downvote content that is disinteresting or low quality helps to counter-balance articles that get overinflated with likes. Another solution would be to have a new/hot hybid sort method where the last three newest low vote/no vote threads take the first three slots, followed by the top...
💬 8 comments · 1 like · 2023-07-25 · 2 months ago
How about other noticiations for Bubble posts? — I was thinking about the notication mails for Bubble posts and thought if it would be good to have other channels for notifications, e.g. XMPP. I have no idea how that would be possible, it would kind of plays into the don't use big services thing that gemini does
💬 6 comments · 2023-07-25 · 2 months ago
i see the comments are in the 'newest first' order. today i continued my post with comments, and i see the first comment is a continuation of a second. people usually scroll from up to down, so i guess the default way of having up to down comments chronologically would be better. otherwise they need to read the post, then go down, then gradually navigate upwards. also i can imagine that the click on the arrow which shows order of comments(it is upward now, and i cannot find the way to change...
💬 9 comments · 2023-07-21 · 2 months ago
tip for those who would like to post photos to bubble on their android phone: the app 'imagepipe' both strips all metadata for privacy and also has a image quality/compression slider to easily find a balance between resolution and the 100kb cap
💬 1 comment · 1 like · 2023-07-20 · 2 months ago
Pseudo Federation Idea — An idea popped into my head regarding Bubble and "federation". I think it was discussed previously that making the Bubble software federate with other instances would add too much code and complexity. My idea is a kind of pseudo federation. I'm thinking on a user level you could combine posts from multiple subspaces into one feed. But instead of just multiple subspaces from the same instance, it could be posts from a different instance's subspace. More specifically,...
💬 2 comments · 3 likes · 2023-07-10 · 3 months ago
A random Bubble tip I've been intending to mention: user and subspace names are case-insensitive but case-preserving. This means you can change the capitalization of your names without breaking any links. For example: /u/SKYJAKE User accounts can be renamed in Settings and subspaces can be renamed on the subspace admin page.
💬 4 likes · 2023-07-09 · 3 months ago
Updated to Bubble v5.1: Revised layout of the comment view: consistent metadata presentation compared to a top-level post; begin with a "Re:" link; "Original Post" is always shown at the bottom. Comment view shows per-post notifications. Fixed: Only show later Git commits in a "Later Comments" thread. Fixed: Search results linking to issues used the wrong ID number.
💬 1 comment · 4 likes · 2023-06-23 · 3 months ago
I usually use the Subspaces list as start page, I wonder if it would be useful to have an activity indicator or a count of posts on each Subspace
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-06-22 · 3 months ago
The Bubble project has an actual home page now:
💬 4 comments · 4 likes · 2023-06-22 · 3 months ago
Bubble v5.0: Comment View, Index of Posts, Time Zones, Certificate Recovery — Bubble version 5 introduces several new features. Some improve basic usability and some are smaller things that have been missing from the start. All of these have been informed by the experience of using BBS over the past weeks. Viewing an Individual Comment Comments are not meant to be tightly bound to their parent posts. Internally, a comment is equivalent to a regular top-level post except that it also has a...
💬 1 comment · 4 likes · 2023-06-20 · 3 months ago · #release
Gemini email — I think the most brilliant part of Bubble is in the Gemtext interface (UI): it's well engineered and the ability to compose drafts that can be edited later is a big step towards fully operational Gemini services. I can't imagine why an online banking couldn't be run with the same approach. That said... Is there any purely technical barrier to the creation of a Bubble-based (or Bubble-inspired) Gemini email interface, that is a webmail subsistute? I know that many Geminauts prefer...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · 2023-06-20 · 3 months ago
BBS has been updated to Bubble v4.3. Polls weren't being tagged appropriately, causing them to appear as regular posts and not be notified about. Fixed paging in the issue tracker (couldn't change page in closed issues). I am now running bbs.geminispace.org and skyjake.fi on GmCapsule v0.5. This new version of the server enables live reloading of extensions so I can upgrade Bubble without shutting down the server. Another enhancement is that there are additional background processes for...
💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-17 · 3 months ago
I find myself with several notifications, often in the same subspace. I read through the subspace, but still have remaining notifications and have to clear them by hand...
💬 1 comment · 2023-06-15 · 3 months ago
BBS has been updated to Bubble v4.2: Added Snowflake avatar. Improved tag editor: use correct terms ("post" or "issue") and removed redundancy in the UI. Issue trackers display the number of issues in the top heading. Fixed draft undercounting in the dashboard link (comment and issue tracker drafts were not included). Moved tagging actions to the moderator group under post actions, for clarity. Minor page formatting tweaks.
💬 3 comments · 2 likes · 2023-06-15 · 3 months 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 · 4 months ago
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