The Construct suggestions platform (2024 edition)

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  • I'm actually personally running relatively low on new suggestions, and I'd rather see added robustness to the existing stuff. Aka more exposed ACEs, added functionality etc.

    But adding ACEs and tiny/subtle functionalities to existing stuff are in fact considered as feature suggestions. Most of the ideas on the new GitHub platform are about that

    (I could implement almost any ACE that were requested right now as add-ons if i wanted to btw - in fact 4 suggestions on the 2024 platform are already done in addons I released)

    So that would mean asking for an obviously missing ACE would be considered as the single suggestion you're able to ask. I find it pretty counter-productive and inefficient

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  • Hmm yeah I didn't consider that, in my mind I was kinda only thinking about entirely new features. I guess in that case leave it as is, I don't think there is anything wrong with it in the current state. After all, there's 33 shipped suggestions on the 2023 platform which seems quite solid overall.

  • I don't think GitHub has any feature that allows for limiting submissions per user, so we couldn't enforce that easily - but I don't think we should do that anyway. The process is basically a collaboration between users saying what they want and us reviewing what we think is important and feasible. When things are positive on both sides of the equation it is much more likely to get done (subject to available resources). Limiting submissions means it's less likely to get a positive result on both sides of that equation, and also tends to make people upset as they have ideas that they want to submit but can't. The downside though is the huge volume. If people go ahead and submit roughly 2 years worth of work in the space of 3 days - which is what I think has just happened - I don't think there's much we can do about that, other than encouraging people to only file a small number of their most important requests. But I don't think anyone pays much attention to that!

    I also don't think it's feasible for us to respond to every suggestion. The feature request guidelines say we don't promise a response because I don't think we reasonably can. Even minor features can become unexpectedly complicated, and so I don't want to give a "this looks easy!" response even if I think that, because regularly it descends in to weeks of complicated work anyway, and in the worst case could end up having to be removed again, and so such responses would be misleading. Often responses end up in extended discussions where people dissect what I've written (which was usually only a vague impression anyway), try to advocate their case more strongly, or end up talking in detail about various aspects of the suggestion; I just can't afford the time to do that for hundreds of feature requests, nor does the discussion even always come to any particular conclusion. The only feedback I'm comfortable giving is "this looks particularly difficult and would likely be a major project", which unfortunately has the side-effect of making me look really pessimistic and only ever saying negative things about suggestions. I don't really want to give that impression as it's a useful and positive thing to have lots of cool ideas being submitted and discussed by members of the community who care about making Construct better. But I'm not sure there's anything better to do - when there are such a huge number of suggestions, way way beyond what we could possibly do, I think it's sensible to manage expectations and push back where I can to help identify what really matters.

  • The next 2 years of updates is going to be so good then!

    There's a lot of great suggestions already.

    Thanks Ashley and everyone for your submissions.

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