🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥
🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥
In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.
I had been browsing the site for 5 minutes before I realized that I had not enabled javascript. Everything works: drop-down menus, icon fonts, everything. This is a very rare and skilful thing. I have deep respect and adoration, and it bodes well for the actual software.
Which I'm a little hazy about: can I build a forum with it? Or a blog?
A forum blog, or flog for short.
Ah... I have uBlock on and the site didn't work without allowing some filters, despite javascript being on.
Hm, weird, they have a perfectly working HTML/CSS site yet they fill it up with 3rd party requests for javascript etc.
In this case enabling javascript might actually make things worse.
This curbs my enthusiasm a little.
Looking at the about page because the concept sounds like it might be really cool...
Started in 2020, Bonfire is a mission-driven project creating
sustainable open-source tools and building blocks for communities to
engage meaningfully, coordinate as peers, make collective decisions,
and cooperate effectively – all interconnected with countless
federated apps across the web. We're dedicated to nurturing digital
spaces that encourage vibrant community participation and impactful
collaboration.We endeavour to foster a transparent, inclusive, and empowering
environment. This ethos drives us to build connected, democratic, and
vibrant digital spaces, supporting communities around the world to
connect, grow, and flourish.Who writes this stuff? It's meaningless buzzword drivel.
What's the point in an about page's first text block if not to give a high level overview of what the thing is?
It might well be something I could be enthusiastic about but I took one look and thought "You've given me no reason to try to decode this and there's better things I could do with a sunny Saturday".
About pages are super important and this project is being let down by it.
In open source circles, a technical description of what a tool does might be the norm, but in many other spaces, signaling your values and ideology is more important than the technicalities. For you it's buzzwords, for other people it means a very specific positioning.
A technical description?
I don't know the first thing about Bonfire. I literally only know its name, and even then, I'm not sure if it's even an it.
It might be an organisation, a single tool, a framework, a development environment, a service, I genuinely don't know.
A "mission-driven project" is a meaningless phrase that can be applied to almost anything.
For you it's buzzwords, for other people it means a very specific positioning.
Positioning what?
Circles and boundaries: Creating flexible "circles" (like "colleagues" or "book club") and "boundaries" (granular permission sets) to control exactly who can see, interact with, or collaborate on anything—putting people in charge of their online relationships.
Yeah, I miss Google+ also
Thank you! This project make so much more sense when put in context of Google+. Their landing page is so buzzwordy my eyes just glazed over and just couldn't see what it's actually trying to achieve.
Makes me wonder if there is self hosted project like Google Wave... and if that is a good idea...