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Should probably mention that “The Roadmap” is probably made up from the topics in the Releases category, you can’t really vote for “I think the roadmap is fine as is” without reading the roadmap.

Some of these have come up many times, but here is a little wish list from me…

  • Android Performance
  • I believe the road map covers this.
  • Since launching with Discourse in several communities I have been feeling the impact of this and know first hand that members have left the community because they feel the Discourse mobile client is “too slow” / unusable - “the old one worked and was fast”.
  • It’s the beast that never seems to go away - but the current release 1.3 hopefully helps fingers crossed.
  • Related topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-discourse-so-slow-on-android/8823
  • Official Discourse “Chat”
  • I believe it’s important to keep conversations inside the communities to drive people to come back.
  • For one community I help with - currently users are being lost to Facebook Chat, then users move to Facebook groups because of better integration / notifications (real feedback from small community).
  • Important that the design doesn’t mean that topic posts go down. Perhaps tools to convert a chat conversation into a topic?
  • Related topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-plugin-features/24437
  • Related topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-should-on-site-chat-look-like/24527
  • “First class” Android and iOS notifications
  • again driving users to return and allow for faster moving conversation within a community.
  • Full-page search
  • I believe the road map covers this.
  • Generally accessible more search options, users don’t understand they can type filters like order:latest even though the help is there.
  • For an older community (10+ years) pulling up older topics are not always more relevant - an easy option for a user to select. I’ve had reports of a user purchasing products based on forum recommendations in an older topic - not realising there was a newer topic just a few weeks earlier - as it didn’t appear within the first 5/6 search results but included the keywords.
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