Customizing your Experience

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Bonfire gives you many ways to personalize your interface, notifications, and overall experience.

Profile Customization

Edit your profile to set:

  • Background image and avatar (supported formats: gif, png, webp, jpeg/jpg)
  • Full name, bio, website, and location
  • Other profiles: Link to your other fediverse or web profiles
  • Widget: Show/hide widgets on your profile (such as weather in your location)
  • Delete your profile and all associated data

Your display name, avatar, and header image can be changed at any time.

Account Settings

Access your account settings from the sidebar under Account.

Here you can:

  • Change your password (requires current password for security)
  • Change your email address (requires confirmation via email)
  • Delete your account, all your profiles, and all associated data

User Preferences

Access your preferences from the sidebar or navigation menu under Preferences.

Appearance

  • Theme: Choose between light, dark, or system themes.
  • Font: Select your preferred font for the interface.
  • Language: Set your interface language.
  • Date format: Choose how dates are displayed (relative or absolute).
  • Compact layouts: Prefer a denser layout with more content per screen.
  • Hide avatars: Hide avatars throughout the app.

Feeds and Discussions

  • Feed time limit: Set the default time range for feeds.
  • Feed/discussion sort: Choose how feeds and discussions are sorted (chronological, etc).
  • Items per feed: Set how many items to show in feeds and lists.
  • Discussion layout: Choose between flat or threaded discussions.

Wellbeing

  • Mark all uploads as sensitive: Automatically mark media you upload as sensitive by default.
  • Hide media: Blur all media in feeds and discussions.
  • Infinite scrolling: Enable or disable infinite scroll in feeds.
  • Highlight notification indicator: Use the primary color to highlight notifications.

Privacy & Safety

  • Enable federation: Control whether your profile and content are federated.
  • Who can reach me by direct message: Limit who can send you DMs.
  • Discoverability: Control whether your profile is discoverable in search engines and directories.
  • Search indexing: Allow your content to appear in search engines and the fediverse.
  • Trending topics: Show or hide trending tags or groups.
  • Trending days/topics: Set how many days of activity and how many topics to show.

Dashboard

Configure your dashboard widgets under Configure Dashboard.

  • Show or hide widgets such as popular topics, admins, or your following feed.

Extensions & Advanced Settings

  • Enable or disable extensions under Configure Extensions.
  • Customize preferences for any enabled extension, such as boundaries (e.g. set your default post boundaries), reactions, maps, and more from the sidebar.
  • Advanced settings for emoji, block lists, import/export, and more.

Tips

  • Most settings can be set at the account level to define defaults for all your profiles. You can then override specific settings for each individual profile as needed.
  • Explore the sidebar for more customization options.
  • Changes are saved automatically or with a "Save" button, depending on the section.

For privacy and boundaries, see Circles & Boundaries.
For notifications, see Notifications.