I agree that it would be in the best interest of all if everyone focus on improving the most used platform to make it more user-friendly and versatile.
I ain't a developer but since I'm your follower, I read this article. But I'm somewhat shocked to see that @sneak has listed only 5 issues for the community developers. There are several such trivial issues which can be worked upon simultaneously.
Like when you work on auto-suggestion of tags after inserting a few characters, can't this could be applied to mentions? May be after a little code-tweaking, I really dunno. But it's really difficult to mention or search some one than tagging a word. And I can't even recall my followers or to whom I'm following by searching them with a wrong spell. And this is very frustrating.
In my Blog tab, I'd like to have a different tab for Resteems and my own posts and I don't think this is too difficult to code but would have a more utility in finding our own old posts and will also make easier for my followers to find my own blog posts.
I mean, there are hundreds of such trivial things which should be taken care of at the earliest to mitigate the irritation among users. But how long will it take by just taking 5 issues at a time? 😥
These are good suggestions. Please send me more if you have any.
While these are all great feature suggestions though, most of what you described are actually difficult changes. I don't think that they are things that a community developer (with little knowledge of the code) could implement.
The main purpose of the 5 was to pick 'easy' changes that someone could do without much experience working with the code. If we can get people to work on these, then after working on the 'easy' changes, they may be in a better position to tackle some of the more difficult ones.
Thanks for appreciating my suggestions! But now I got the idea what you are seeking from community developers. I really don't know what to suggest for them. As a user I can only come up with some feature suggestion and I don't understand the complexity in executing them. So probably, I should keep an eye on road map than on community developers for the features we desire in the future. Is there a place where I can see all the feature requests made so far and if I could add some there if they aren't made already?
No. The only way to find them all would be to go digging through posts.
OMG! I'm sorry to say that I ain't too keen about it. The very first thing I'd suggest is that some one should take an initiative to make some place like forum where users can make feature requests they are looking for; if User Interface improvement is really desired. Every feature can have a thread for further discussion. Knowledge is in the masses. And community's insight should be given utmost importance for UI improvement at the least. But now it looks I'm digressing and taking you away in a different direction.
About 9 months ago, I organized all the requests into a community 'wish list'. It is pretty out of date at this point though. Something like that would be nice to have :) Maybe one of the community devs will consider building it.