Thursday, January 1, 2009

Brainstorm and vote on ideas for Pidgin!

Today Pidgin is launching a new community for users. Brainstorm, the centerpiece of this site, features a voting system for discovering the most popular Pidgin-related ideas.

With this, the developers will hopefully get a good sense of what is important. Brainstorm will also track when submitted ideas are finally implemented.

The benefits aren't limited only to the developers. Plugin developers and patch writers will be able to get some inspiration too.

Many thanks to the guys who made Ubuntu Brainstorm, which forms the backbone of Pidgin Brainstorm. Also needing recognition: Vadim Peretokin and maxious, who suggested an ideas board on my blog post about building a better community. This was all put together in less than 72 hours (notwithstanding some New Year's celebrations).

Please comment on what you think about the new site, and how it compares to the old system.

So get on out there and start submitting ideas for your favorite chat client!
Posted by Casey Ho at 9:34 PM
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16 comments:

  1. when logged in, I'm unable to vote. it keeps telling me i need to log in
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  3. Well that's a bummer. Let me check.
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  4. Issue fixed- stupid mistake on my part. Thanks!
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  5. I had to do some hacking with Firebug to log in with my OpenID because the JQuery form wasn't showing up when the link was clicked...
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  6. Herohtar,

    Known issue, I'm working on it. Did everything work okay after making the form show up?
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  7. I was able to log in via openid and vote on some issues, although there was an ugly error message right after I logged in. I hope this thing sticks around/gets used, it's a lot more user-friendly than Trac. Trac is better as a developers' tool IMO.
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  8. That's what I'm talking about :)
    The ideas already posted are very much what I too would like to see in the future for pidgin!
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  9. I got two Postgres errors when logging in with OpenID.
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  10. OpenID worked great here.
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  11. Searching by tags gives a 404 however
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  12. *Applause*

    First the survey. Now this. It really shows that you're making an even stronger effort to get user feedback.

    This is a fantastic idea. I really hope it takes off.
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  13. Thanks for your involvement, however, the link doesn't seem to be working anymore.
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  14. The link redirects to "http://pidgin.im/support/".
    It doesn't seem like it's supposed to.
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  15. Aku, that's because it was taken down for a number of reasons.

    See the later blog posts on the Pidgin website.
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  16. Now it has been brought back to life in unofficial form:

    http://pidgin.ideatorrent.org/
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