I want a lesswrong canny—here’s vrchat’s canny for comparison. Canny (or similar systems, eg “the feature requests post”) are nice because upvoted features have no particular need of being implemented. It also means that the “why users want this” feedback channel is higher bandwidth than just guess-test-and-ask; with a central place for people to comment on features and indicate their preferences, it’s much easier for someone to go see what feature suggestions there are and add their feedback. I have several feature requests I’d add which the LW team has been hesitant about, and I think that if they made affordance for many users to comment on potential features, it would become clearer which ones are actually wanted by many people and why; and yet it would not force the LW team to implement any one feature, so requests that they’d prefer to reject or satisfy a different way would be still possible.
So, I formally request that the LW team make a feature requests post and pin it somewhere discoverable but not overly prominent, eg the top right user menu.
A persistent place to look for feedback which creates common knowledge of desired features seems likely to me (70% ish?) to make it obvious that shortform-to-post is one of the top 4 most desired features out of dozens.
I want a lesswrong canny—here’s vrchat’s canny for comparison. Canny (or similar systems, eg “the feature requests post”) are nice because upvoted features have no particular need of being implemented. It also means that the “why users want this” feedback channel is higher bandwidth than just guess-test-and-ask; with a central place for people to comment on features and indicate their preferences, it’s much easier for someone to go see what feature suggestions there are and add their feedback. I have several feature requests I’d add which the LW team has been hesitant about, and I think that if they made affordance for many users to comment on potential features, it would become clearer which ones are actually wanted by many people and why; and yet it would not force the LW team to implement any one feature, so requests that they’d prefer to reject or satisfy a different way would be still possible.
So, I formally request that the LW team make a feature requests post and pin it somewhere discoverable but not overly prominent, eg the top right user menu.
A persistent place to look for feedback which creates common knowledge of desired features seems likely to me (70% ish?) to make it obvious that shortform-to-post is one of the top 4 most desired features out of dozens.