First, I'd like to say that I'm really liking D&D Beyond and am looking forward to the new features I've heard are coming. I keep up with the change log and try to catch all of the dev update streams. I also keep an eye on the forums, and while I'm not super active here, one thing is kind of hard to miss. There seem to be a lot of duplicate conversations asking about the same features over and over. With that in mind, I'd like to make a couple of friendly suggestions...
Feature request mechanism: How about some feature request mechanism where people can submit a feature idea and people can discuss them and vote up the ones they'd like to see? I'm sure the devs have enough priority features to work on already, and don't need more on their todo list. Still, I think a more streamlined way for users to voice their opinions about specific features would be better than having dozens of unconnected forum threads about the same topic.
Roadmap: It'd be really helpful to have a published roadmap to refer to. A simple list of what features are being worked on and which ones will get attention "soon" would cut down on a lot of duplicate questions on the forums, and give people a reference to point to when those questions do come up. This list already exists and is presented in the dev update streams, so this would not represent any new promises that could someday get broken. Also, a video recording of a live stream does not make an easy reference. What if you copy/paste that existing list onto a dedicated page for it, and update it periodically (monthly, when the dev updates happen would be fine). You could even make a monthly article with a link to the latest dev stream recording, the roadmap as it currently stands, and a summary of whatever other key points that were mentioned in the dev stream, and post that article on the change log or front page (or wherever). That would also give more visibility to the dev streams (I'm sure some people don't even know those happen).
Ironically, it's entirely possible that these ideas have been brought up before, and may even be in development already. ;)
For the roadmap, this could be a simple pinned and locked post in this forum. It could be updated periodically when BadEye does his dev streams, or when there's a new feature rolled out.
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First, I'd like to say that I'm really liking D&D Beyond and am looking forward to the new features I've heard are coming. I keep up with the change log and try to catch all of the dev update streams. I also keep an eye on the forums, and while I'm not super active here, one thing is kind of hard to miss. There seem to be a lot of duplicate conversations asking about the same features over and over. With that in mind, I'd like to make a couple of friendly suggestions...
Ironically, it's entirely possible that these ideas have been brought up before, and may even be in development already. ;)
Anyways, I hope this helps!
For the roadmap, this could be a simple pinned and locked post in this forum. It could be updated periodically when BadEye does his dev streams, or when there's a new feature rolled out.