Feature requests

The public request board. File what you want built, vote on what other people asked for, and watch a request cross the 1,000-vote line that puts it on the roadmap. Voter names are public; the reasons people give are not.

Nothing is held for review. It is on the board with your name on it the moment you press the button, and you can cancel it just as fast.

It appears immediately

People vote, and they have to say why

That is a commitment to build it, not a date for it. Anything under the line I still read — most of what has changed on this site came from requests that never got near the threshold.

The slot comes back when you cancel

Afterwards

What happens to it

A bug. That is faster by email — a bug does not need votes and I would rather fix it than watch it accumulate them.

Anything private. This board is public, including the title you write. Your email address is not shown anywhere on it, but everything you type into this form is.

Work you want doing for you. That is a project, and it starts with a conversation rather than a vote count.

What not to file here
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Wanted something that is not here?

File it. Even a request that never reaches the threshold tells me what people expected to find and did not — and that has changed more of this site than the votes have.

Tell me anyway. The board is the fast way to say it and it is shut just now, so the slow way is the only one open — it reaches the same person and gets read the same way.

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Yours to manage

You filed this one. Cancelling takes it off the board and gives you the slot back — and you get a few seconds to undo it, which is why there is no dialog asking whether you are sure.

Somebody else filed this, so it is theirs to cancel. If it is a duplicate of something you already asked for, say so in your vote and I will merge them.

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Either the link is wrong, or the person who filed it cancelled it. Cancelling frees their slot and takes the request off the board — the votes already cast stay attached to it and are not moved anywhere else.

This one was approved without reaching the vote threshold. The votes below are the real count and are not a total it had to reach.

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Progress to approval

This request has crossed the line and is on the roadmap. That is not a date.

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Net votes are upvotes minus downvotes, recounted from the individual ballots every time this page renders. Nothing here is a stored total.

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A recording of the problem

Attached by the request author

The person who filed this attached a video. It is hosted on YouTube, so nothing is requested from them until you press play — and the link below works whether or not you do.

Build this
Counts +1 toward the threshold.

Voting is closed just now, along with the rest of the board. The count above is final for as long as it stays shut, every ballot already cast is still attached to this request, and nothing here has been recounted or removed.

Your vote

Say which way you are voting and why. The reason is the part I actually read — a tally tells me what is popular and nothing about what it would change for you.

Add your weight to this

Not this

Counts −1. Net votes are the measure, so this genuinely moves the bar back.

Voting needs an account — one ballot per person is the only thing that makes the count mean anything. Google is the only way in, and your name is what appears on the list below.

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One ballot per person, so this is counted. Your reason is below, and only you and I can read it.

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Visible to you as the owner, and to the person who wrote it

This one is waiting for its first ballot. Yours would be the one that starts it.

Nobody has voted yet
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Who voted for this

Reason kept private
Your reason — visible to you and to Ahsan

The board is empty. File the first request and it appears here straight away.

Nothing has been asked for yet

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The board is closed just now — nothing is being filed and nothing is being voted on. Everything already here is kept exactly as it was, votes attached, and the counts below are still the real ones. Email is the way through in the meantime.

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What you have filed

What you filed is still yours. It is kept with its votes attached and comes back to this page the moment the board opens again — nothing was cancelled, nothing was recounted, and no slot was taken off you.

What I store about you
Restored. It is back on the board.

Voting and filing both need an account, because a board where anyone can vote as many times as they like measures nothing. Signing in with Google is the only way in — there is no password to forget and I never see one.

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Why does it matter?

The concrete version wins votes. What you tried, what happened, what you expected.

Ask for it
The request form

File a feature request

It goes straight onto the public board with your name on it, where anyone can vote it up or down. There is no triage queue and nothing waits for my approval to appear — the votes are the triage.

Not just now — the board is closed, so there is nowhere public for a new request to land. Email reaches me directly in the meantime, and it reaches me faster.

Reference links (optional)
One per line.

There is nowhere public for a new request to land, so this form is not taking any. Send it by email instead — it reaches the same person, and a request that arrives that way is still read and still counts.

Email it to me

The board is closed just now

Nothing open yet. Filing your first one is what this page is for.

Which one is it about?
Not one in particular
Or it is about this site.
Something else — name it
Portfolio
aoneahsan.com itself.
strata-storage
The storage package.
Trizlink
Short links and link-in-bio.
ZTools
The browser toolbox.
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First

Your name goes on the request, and the three-request limit needs to know whose requests they are. Google is the only way in — there is no password, and I never see one.

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Filing…

What should be built?

This is the line people vote on, so it does most of the work. “RSS with full post bodies” gets read; “better feeds” does not.

What kind of thing is it?
A feature

Something one of the existing things should also do.

A feature belongs to something that already exists, so it needs to say which.

A whole product

Something that does not exist yet and probably should.

A video, if you have one

Optional, and YouTube only. It appears on the request page behind a play button — nothing is requested from YouTube until somebody presses it.

YouTube links only — that is the only player the request page can embed.

Filing and voting are both paused. This is a queue that shuts rather than one that quietly swallows things while nobody is reading it — and every request already filed is kept, with its votes still attached to it, exactly where it was.

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The board stays a queue rather than a wishlist. Cancel one of yours to open another, or move to a plan that allows more.

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This account cannot change requests.
That request no longer exists.

Only a pending request can be cancelled. Once it is on the roadmap it is out of your hands — and mine.

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That request is not cancelled.

This one was cancelled by an administrator, so it is not yours to put back.

Restoring this would pass your open-request limit. Cancel another one first.

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The rules

How the board works

Four rules, all of them enforced by the thing that stores the votes rather than by the page you are reading. Every number below is printed from the same constant the write path checks.

One ballot per person per request. Changing your mind means the old ballot is replaced, never added to.

One vote each
A vote carries a reason
Three open requests
Closest to approval
Newest
Most votes
Approved so far
Requests filed
Votes cast
Everything
Approved
Cancelled
In progress
Pending
Shipped
Feature
Product

Cancelling a request hides it from the board and frees your slot. The votes already cast on it stay attached to it and are not recounted anywhere else.

Your name and the request titles you file are public. Your email address is not shown anywhere on this board.

Who can see what

Your name is public when you vote. A request page lists everyone who voted on it, by name, so the count is something you can check rather than something you have to trust.

The reason you give is not. Your comment is visible to you and to me, and to nobody else. It is where you say the awkward version, and it is only useful if you can.

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Where do you stand?

Your name is public on this board. Your reasoning is not — I read it, nobody else does.

Your vote is recorded.
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