s/Bubble
💬 Bubble is a Gemini bulletin board system with many influences from Station, Reddit, WordPress, and issue trackers like GitHub Issues.
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Bubble v11.0 — This is a small feature update with a couple of useful additions. Automatic Comment Order There is a new option for sorting comments in discussion threads: "⇅ Automatic" chooses the sort order based on which order is used in the post feed. When using the default chronological post order, threads display also chronologically in natural reading order. However, when using the Activity or Hotness sorting modes, comments are displayed newest-first. I've been using this myself with…
💬 View post · Apr 21 · 2 weeks ago · #release
Bubble v10.0 — Confirming Notification Email Addresses It is now mandatory to confirm that an email address works before Bubble will send notifications to it. Previously, one could have entered any address, with typos or intentional malice, and the system would happily spam the address indefinitely. The confirmation process is very simple: when you set the notification email address, Bubble sends a confirmation message with a link back to the Bubble instance. Opening the link marks the…
💬 3 comments · 7 likes · Apr 04 · 5 weeks ago · #release
Bubble v9.0: Edit Links — Titan Edit Links A new setting has been added for enabling Titan edit links in the post composer. This allows convenient editing of posts and comments via Titan. A Titan edit link includes the URL parameter "edit". This parameter instructs the server to respond with the latest version of the edited resource and, optionally, lock it until the updated contents are uploaded. The client is then expected to immediately forward the contents to a text editor, and submit the...
💬 7 comments · 3 likes · 2024-10-11 · 2 years ago · #release
Bubble v8.1: Flair Composer, User-Defined and Moderator Flairs — This release fixes a number of bugs and significantly expands the flair mechanism added in v8.0. You now have control over your own flairs via a flair composer UI. The presentation of flairs has been tweaked accordingly. Moderators of a subspace also have new flair-related abilities. Flair Composer The fact that flairs were fully admin-controlled in v8.0 was largely due to implementation details: at that time I didn't have any...
💬 11 comments · 3 likes · 2024-01-15 · 2 years ago · #release
Bubble v8.0: Flairs and Locked Posts — This is a small feature update that adds a couple of moderation tools and fixes a few bugs. Flairs A flair is a free-form text label that appears next to the user's name and provides some additional contextual information about the user. You may be familiar with this concept from sites like Reddit. A flair can only be bestowed on a user by the administator of the Bubble instance. Users themselves, even if they are moderators, cannot assign flairs. Flairs...
💬 16 comments · 6 likes · 2024-01-10 · 2 years ago · #release
Bubble v7.0: Subspace Views, Grouped Posts, New Feed Options and User Actions — It has been four months since the previous Bubble feature update. This is plenty of time to observe how I and others have been using the system and think of potential improvements. This release makes substantial changes to show useful information that was previously unavailable, gives you more control over what is displayed on the front page, and applies a host of smaller tweaks to improve general usability. Viewing...
💬 1 comment · 4 likes · 2023-11-12 · 2 years ago · #release
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 full contents of posts (as HTML) so they can be used for following...
💬 9 likes · 2023-07-18 · 3 years ago · #release
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 years ago · #release
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 · 3 years ago · #release
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 · 3 years ago · #release
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 years ago · #release