Settling in to finish the last 100 pages of reading due before tomorrow. Luckily I've got this to keep me company:

Crystallization [ft. Lydia Wu] - EP https://bandwagon.fm/678816e01b221f9c67784336

Got it. Thank you!

@delanthear @iamimperfect

Yes. For sure.

Free text field, real dates and locations, and maybe an image. Do you think that would do?

You’re the first person to really use these events, which were intentionally underpowered when we got started. So thank you for being brave.

I’ll get these sorted out as quick as I can. I’d actually appreciate taking a break from “the eternal search engine” project.

@delanthear @iamimperfect

@atomicpoet

Way to go! 225 is no joke.

… assuming we finally get a workable portability spec in #ActivityPub. Work on this is underway now, but both home servers and “following” servers will need to support it.

@jrp

Something I hadn’t considered about account #portability …

It will simplify initial user onboarding. Interested in XYZ software? Cool. Sign up now on xyz.social. You can move your account in a week or two once you have a lay of the land…

Hey, no worries at all. ActivityPub is weird, and doesn’t work the way people expect. It’s always worth it to double check how we appear on different servers.

@axwax

You're scaring me by invoking MySpace

But yeah, we could probably allow custom CSS for the brave of heart. Fortunately, most elements should already have pretty rational ID and Class markers.

I've add a task to allow this - https://github.com/orgs/EmissarySocial/projects/1/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=96136935

But you'll want to be careful with this new power. Many things are still in flux, and I could easily break your custom CSS with a new page update.

@delanthear

Hey, no worries. Not many people are on GitHub, so I’ll take reports however it's easiest to send them.

This worked for me when I searched both the username and URL from both the mastodon.social website and the Ivory client.

Is it possible that it's being blocked by your instance? Or that Mastodon v4.3 behaves differently from v4.4?

@axwax @[email protected] @[email protected]

This is fantastic. Congratulations! And, thank you!

I'm actually churning through some of your bug reports now Every request is gold, and helps make Bandwagon better for everyone.

@icaria36

Yes. So much better than clicking a little star or heart.

I’ve heard the exact same thing from the graphic artist world, too.

Clearly we can do better than simply copying Xitter’s for-profit engagement machine.

@alisynthesis @keefmarshall @mixtape @meljoann @mizkirsten

Yes. So for albums it’s pretty straightforward. Show “likes” publicly. Lots of platforms do this.

For artist profiles, it’s a bit trickier. We (kinda) use “follows” for this, but it’s not an exact match. We might just try this as a proxy, but I feel like there’s a better solution.

The wider Fediverse needs this, anyway. Can I “endorse” someone separate from following them? It opens up lots of possibilities.

@keefmarshall @alisynthesis @mixtape @meljoann @mizkirsten

great question, and one I can’t answer. I’m spending very little time in Bandcamp, these days.

But it’s an excellent point - allow people to express their support and interest in an artist or album in a way that has nothing to do with paying money.

I’ll try to figure out how we do this.

@alisynthesis @mixtape @meljoann @keefmarshall @mizkirsten

100% yes. Money is awesome. I love money. But it’s not validation.

Can you suggest anything that I can do from a technical standpoint to help reinforce this?

@alisynthesis @mixtape @meljoann @keefmarshall @mizkirsten

Shoot. And, sorry for the trouble, guys. I was sure this newer design was going to be better, and easier to navigate.

Thanks for the heads up on this. Yes, contrast needs to work correctly. I'll figure out another way to make this visible everywhere

@axwax @socool @ordosmarkzero

BTW, here's a link to the bug report, in case you want to watch me fix this in real time

https://github.com/orgs/EmissarySocial/projects/1/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=96015320

It's great to see so much energy in this space right now. Thank you for posting this. You all are awesome.

I want to align all/many/most of these ideas into our existing roadmap. It's all doable, and I think we're already pretty close.

I'm hoping to get caught up over this weekend. When I am, I'll try to post a long-form reply, because all these ideas are so much bigger than the 500 characters Mastodon gives me

@mixtape @meljoann @keefmarshall @mizkirsten

@atomicpoet

Well, that sounds like Tuesday. I’ll coordinate with you over DM

@atomicpoet yes. I would love that. maybe we set up a time next week?

Yes. And sorry for the confusion. I’m just referring to their distributed search as an example. I’m building a different distributed search engine that is similar, but will run on any Bandwagon server (and not on Framasoft’s servers)

Also, I do plan to have account migration as well. Hopefully it is available in less time than it has taken PeerTube.

@jrp

A) Thanks for checking out Bandwagon. It really means a lot!

b) Posting publicly works just fine for me, unless there's a reason you need privacy. I really like the idea of developing out in the open; it brings people together, which is even more powerful than whatever code I smash into the computer on a random Thursday.

I will do my best to remove as many barriers as I can. It's a lot to juggle, but worth the time.

@monarkie