Suggestions for improving Feature Upvote.

In October 2023, we reset this board. We've seeded the board with 10 or so existing suggestions we are most likely to implement in coming months.

Previous suggestions and votes have been safely moved to another board.

Support for @mention for an existing user

A common flow is: 1. Someone creates a basic suggestion 2. The product team has a clarification question Unless we change the status to something like "Need ...
Suggested by: Paul Ikeda (08 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 07 Aug Comments: 1
Pinned Planned

Add an overview of "My contributions"

I would like to have an overview of my suggestions, comments, and votes.
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 29 Sep Comments: 2
Under consideration

Force email address on upvotes

Many upvoters don't leave their email address. It would be really useful if they did so we could contact them to take part in user research. It would be good if it ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 17 Sep Comments: 1
Under consideration

Allow more than 1000 chars in description

Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 29 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration UX tweak

Add voting analytics

It would be awesome if Feature Upvote has some sort of basic analytics such as Daily Votes and potentially tracking per feature too. This way we can easily see if ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 16 Sep Comments: 1
Under consideration

Add Azure DevOps integration

Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 23 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration Integrations

Prevent commenting on 'done' suggestions

Similar to the new 'allow voting' permission on each status, could there also be an 'allow commenting' permission that could be turned off for each status. ...
Suggested by: Mike Card (19 Feb) Upvoted: 07 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow custom fields

It would be useful to be able to add some custom fields where the user can add some extra info. This could be a free text field or a drop-down list containing a fixed ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 09 May Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow users to sign up for notifications when suggestions are added

We've had requests from our website users to be able to sign up to receive notifications of when suggestions are added. We use this as a feature request boards ...
Suggested by: James (27 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 23 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow multiple filters to be set in dashboard for easier sorting

Allow the list to be filterable by more than one column at once, especially since once a change is made, the order of the list changes. Example use case: Trying ...
Suggested by: jcheung (20 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 23 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration

Let people exceed character limits and then edit down before submitting

Let people go over the limit when typing, instead of preventing them from typing even a single comma more - and only require them to edit it down to the character ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 17 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow uploading text files

Users can already upload images. But sometimes we need them to upload a text file generated by our game with logging and debug info.
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (17 Jun) Upvoted: 20 Aug Comments: 1
Under consideration

Randomize the sorting of suggestions to avoid bias

The top suggestions tend to attract more votes, simply by virtue of being on the top. A random ordering, perhaps different for each user or for each day, would ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (15 Feb) Upvoted: 20 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow any user to upvote on behalf of customer.

We use Feature Upvote as an internal tool, and it would be great if users could upvote on behalf of their customers. Right now, the only way to do that is to make ...
Suggested by: Graden (13 Feb) Upvoted: 11 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration

Add a Kanban board view based on chosen statuses

Add a Kanban-style tracking board to visualize the stages of ideas.
Suggested by: (27 Dec, '23) Upvoted: 26 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration

Improve search to respect current filters, especially tags

Suggested by: Steve McLeod (02 Nov, '23) Upvoted: 06 Aug Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow formatting in suggestions (bold, italics, lists, etc)

I would love to have formatting to: * make ordered and unordered lists of benefits or possibilities in the feature * divide the feature explanation into sections ...
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (06 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 30 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow the Use of Multiple Tags

Currently, users can only filter by one tag (including admins in the dashboard). This request is to allow for multiple tag selection. The results of this search would ...
Suggested by: Maggie (06 Aug) Upvoted: 15 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration

Custom Colors for Status Tags

I know, there is custom CSS, but this seems silly for such a small thing that should be a default option in the system.
Suggested by: Kristian Pettyjohn (17 Jul) Upvoted: 15 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration

Allow admins to write longer comments

When writing an "official response" in a comment, it would be helpful to write comments longer than the normal max size.
Suggested by: Steve McLeod (15 Feb) Upvoted: 19 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration

Include Suggestion Descriptions in Slack Integration

We recently activated the Slack integration for our account and have noticed that we only receive the suggestion titles in Slack, without the accompanying ...
Suggested by: Bruno F. (24 Oct, '23) Upvoted: 10 Nov, '23 Comments: 0
Under consideration Integrations

Update Microsoft Teams Integration to use Workflows

We've been using the Microsoft Teams Integration which communicates with the Microsoft Teams Incoming Webhook connector for Office 365. There is now a warning on ...
Suggested by: Paul Ikeda (09 Jul) Upvoted: 09 Jul Comments: 1
Planned

add sorting to /contributor moderator view

would be nice to be able to sort by date posted, if the topic is merged, and topic status. would also be nice to see date posted, if merged, topic status. also i ...
Suggested by: jcheung (15 Sep) Upvoted: 15 Sep Comments: 0
Under consideration

Convert comment into a new suggestion

Suggested by: Steve McLeod (05 Apr) Upvoted: 05 Apr Comments: 0
Under consideration

When suggestions are merged, add the merged comments to the end

Currently, when threads are merged the posts are sorted by date and interlaced with the thread being merged into. If 2 similarly-aged threads are merged with several ...
Suggested by: jcheung (20 Feb) Upvoted: 29 May Comments: 0
Under consideration