It’s awesome that you guys are really considering ways to incorporate changes people want.
I wonder, since you’re going to have to put a lot of work into the refurbishing project and resources are finite, would it be worth generating some kind of survey for members to take about what kind of features/alterations/options they’d most like to see? I ask because it occurs to me that soliciting ideas in open threads, while absolutely useful as far as encouraging discussion and exchange of ideas goes, might present a patchy or unduly-slanted picture of what the majority of members want. Prolific commenters (like me!) might dominate the discussion, or certain ideas might look more important because they generate a lot of discussion. A survey of some sort might give you clearer data.
That’s not to say you should necessarily do things because the majority want them, this isn’t a democracy as far as I’m aware and some popular requests might be unworkable. It just could be useful to know. Of course you’re better placed to determine if it’s worth the effort.
(Also, this isn’t in any way prompted by Raemon’s point about the link posts—it was your reply about possible implementation options that put it my head).
It’s awesome that you guys are really considering ways to incorporate changes people want.
I wonder, since you’re going to have to put a lot of work into the refurbishing project and resources are finite, would it be worth generating some kind of survey for members to take about what kind of features/alterations/options they’d most like to see? I ask because it occurs to me that soliciting ideas in open threads, while absolutely useful as far as encouraging discussion and exchange of ideas goes, might present a patchy or unduly-slanted picture of what the majority of members want. Prolific commenters (like me!) might dominate the discussion, or certain ideas might look more important because they generate a lot of discussion. A survey of some sort might give you clearer data.
That’s not to say you should necessarily do things because the majority want them, this isn’t a democracy as far as I’m aware and some popular requests might be unworkable. It just could be useful to know. Of course you’re better placed to determine if it’s worth the effort.
(Also, this isn’t in any way prompted by Raemon’s point about the link posts—it was your reply about possible implementation options that put it my head).