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I'm not sure what was ever decided for the "wall of features" thread below, but I like this basic setup which you have all probably seen:

http://codebase.uservoice.com/forums/25794-codebasehq

Basically a user gets 10 votes and can vote on an existing request or create a new one. There wouldn't be money involved like the previous thread talked about. This might be a good compromise however. The service offers a free version which would allow us to at least get a pulse for the communities' needs beyond these forums. Which the forums are great, but they don't allow us to easily quantify and visualize the data.

Which I realize that you are building up new architecture for 1.4, however it might be a good exercise for us to understand the user stories while we are planning that new design. That way we are designing the best tool, not just a clone of 1.3.

Thoughts?

Sounds good to me. I wonder how hard it would be to pull off on our existing BB software.



Sounds like you use the Agile methodology....

That's a good idea. That way we can just give each registered user their votes and they don't have to sign up for yet another site...



Yep. Worse is better ya know..

Hm. Perhaps we can add a numeric field to the user accounts in phpBB3, then include a button on each post (or thread) so that users can vote.

We already plan some changes for the Feature Request and Bug Report forums; if those two forums had this feature, users could vote (thumbs up/thumbs down) on the most important Features and/or Bugs that should be worked on first.

Anyone familiar with PHP and the phpBB3 forum software? Any work done in this direction will need to be integrated into the themes that are currently in use (and we'll drop those that no one is actually using). If you are interested in working on this, PM me and describe your background and why you think you can tackle this project. I have some UI ideas (user, mod, and admin) to chat about first... Thanks.