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I messed around trying to get Redhat 7.2 or 7.3 working but gave up (Q1 or Q2 2002). I later experimented with SuSe (or however it was stylised in Q1 2005), messed about with Knoppix and a few other distros, before properly going all-in on Ubuntu 5.04 when I was 18.

Silly me, looking at the About page.

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?

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.

Yeah, the previews I saw massively put me off. It looked uninspired if we’re being generous.

This is something I find weird about how farming works in the UK. The notion that it should be profitable is nuts to me. Food is so ridiculously important - surely we should be putting money in to get food out. The food is the profit!