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Today we're shifting our centre of gravity: from social features to community tools. Bonfire was never meant to be one more feed that grabs your attention. Today it takes the shape we've been building toward: Bonfire for communities . A tool for groups th

We've shipped two releases since our last post, so here's a quick roundup of what's new across 1.0.4 and 1.0.5. As always, the full, detailed list lives in the changelog . 1.0.5: Archipelago mode # ...

Since the 1.0 release of Bonfire Social, we've been heads-down listening to our our pilot communities, beta testers, and co-design partners. Version 1.0.3 is the result: a release focused on stability and polish, which fixes a wide range of bugs and bring

We just released Bonfire 1.0.2, an update focused on giving you a more stable and reliable experience. Now is a good time to update your instance or discover Bonfire firsthand at campground.bonfire.cafe . We're also heads-down working with several communi

We're back with Bonfire 1.0.1, an update focused on making your social web experience livelier, more connected, and truly yours. Now is a good time to update your instance or discover Bonfire firsthand at campground.bonfire.cafe . We've moved our main pre

Good news everyone! The maintenance goal of our crowdfunding campaign is 100% funded. Huge thanks to everyone who supported us! Our focus now moves to the a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=uMxfxdtM7kaxrjwxZLS...

Bonfire is difficult to pin down with a single definition, and that's a feature, not a bug. The project's very structure is about enabling a tapestry of social spaces, all built with shared building blocks but diverging in flavour, practice, and purpose.

Meet Adrian and Lee, two of the people helping shape Bonfire's future. They are gifting group administrators who've been on the frontlines of the Buy Nothing movement, building community, fostering generosity, and fighting against Facebook's enshittificat

It was not an easy choice to focus our crowdfunding campaign on care and maintenance as the condition sine qua non to consider it successful. Some may dismiss a maintenance-focused campaign as unambitious or uninteresting, if they don't see the stretch go

Today we're releasing Bonfire Social 1.0: a federated community-first social network and the modular toolkit that powers it: a framework for building apps on the open social web beyond microblogging. We're pairing the launch with a crowdfund so communitie