How voting works
Your votes are kept in this browser. Launch totals come from seeded placeholder accounts, so they are not yet verified public counts.
Where a count comes from today
Every request here is one vote per account, and a total is the number of those votes — never a figure typed in by us. The launch boards were seeded with placeholder accounts so a new board is not empty, which is why totals are currently in the tens rather than the thousands: a count cannot exceed the number of accounts behind it. Your own vote is added on top and stored in this browser until accounts move server-side.
The requests themselves are paraphrased from feedback users have posted publicly. The demand is real; the accounts carrying it at launch are placeholders, and they are removable in one operation without touching anything a real visitor has posted.
Duplicates are merged, not deleted
Two requests for the same thing split the count and make it look like nobody cares. When we merge them the votes and comments move into one request, and the closed one keeps a link to where it went, so an old link never dead-ends.
As you type a new suggestion we look for the same thing already on the board and show it to you, with its vote stamp live in the form. Voting on what exists is nearly always better than posting the same thing again.
Safeguards required for production
- A vote will count only for a verified account.
- A database uniqueness constraint will prevent more than one counted vote per account and idea.
- Mutations will use idempotency keys, server validation and privacy-conscious rate limits.
- Suspicious bursts will be reviewable without giving companies control of totals.
What companies can and cannot do
A verified team can reply, move a status, merge duplicates and decline with a reason. A verified team cannot delete a request because they dislike it, edit somebody else's words, or hide the vote count. Declining is public and keeps its reason on the record.
What each status commits a company to
A status is a promise, so what each one means is published rather than left to interpretation.
- Suggested
- Posted and open for votes. Nobody from the company has looked at it yet.
- Under review
- The team has read it and is deciding. They have committed to an answer, not to building it.
- Planned
- It is going to be built. No date is promised until it moves to in progress.
- In progress
- Someone is building it now.
- Shipped
- Released. The date it shipped is on the record.
- Declined
- The team has said no, with a public reason that stays on the page.
Trending is not the same as top
Top is the raw count. Trending divides the count by how long the idea has been up, so something four days old with two thousand votes can outrank something two years old with ten thousand. Both are shown, and the sort you are looking at is always named.