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    Roadmap update

    Just wanted to start by saying welcome to all our new communities and users! Happy to have you on the platform and we are excited to have you all join us on this crazy venture.
    We've been collecting a ton of feedback over the past week and I wanted to do a quick post outlining what our biggest priorities are in terms of development. Nothing in this list is static, and we are always open to feedback from the community on what everyone thinks is best for us to prioritize and work on.
    
    1. Community moderation tooling
      1. We will build out an extensive moderation dashboard that display's a list of things to review from each community that a user moderates. Whenever a post is reported or flagged it will appear here for the user to review.
      2. Add a customization option to boards where an admin can configure them so that every new post within the board has to first be approved by a moderator to appear in the feed. These posts would seamlessly appear as part of the new moderation dashboard page.
      3. Integrate with AI to automatically scan every new post and comment for things that go against our content guidelines. Flagged posts would need to be approved by a moderator before appearing.
      4. Add a "Community guidelines" page to each community that the admins and mods can use to outline what they define as acceptable discourse.
      5. Add the ability for mods to ban users from the community and issue timeouts.
      6. Add "Modmail"
      7. [Released] Add the ability for mods to move posts from one board to another
    2. Adding NSFW filters to both posts and communities
      1. We want to foster an open community accepting of all forms of content. To implement this properly, we need tagging and filtering in place to ensure that users aren't accidentally exposed to content they don't want to see.
      2. We will be introducing a NSFW category on the "Browse" page for communities to list under. Communities where the primary theme is NSFW will be required to mark themselves as such and list under that category. We will be adding a section to our community guidelines describing this (see below for more on the community guidelines).
      3. For all other communities, you will still be able to create and flag individual posts as being NSFW. These posts will be blurred out in the communities feeds and require clicking through a confirmation modal to access.
      4. We will also be adding a global "Show NSFW" toggle that allows users to completely hide all content tagged as such.
    3. Custom community personalization and branding
      1. [Released] Add the ability to upload a custom community banner image.
      2. Add the ability to add a custom background image.
      3. Add the ability to add custom themes.
      4. Add the ability for a community to set custom emojis
    4. Improve the "Home" page
      1. Add a feed that only shows posts from communities that you follow. Would prioritize posts from the community owners/mods so they can get their messages out.
      2. Build a post recommendation algorithm to have a feed that shows posts related to content/communities that you view.
    5. Add ability to purchase post and comment awards
      1. The revenue from this would be shared with the community owners.
    6. Add ability to buy gifted memberships for a community
      1. For communities that opt in to monetization, we plan on adding the ability for users to purchase "gifted memberships" modeled after Twitch.
      2. The proposed way gifting would work is the system would keep track of every user that visits a community and would first assign gifted memberships to those users. When gifting in a community that does not yet have enough unique visitors in relation to the amount of memberships gifted, the system would randomly assign the gifted memberships to other users from across the app.
      3. Users who get gifted a membership would receive a notification message alerting them that they have been assigned a membership to that community. Our thinking is that this would help draw those users into the community which would help with community growth.
    7. Add ability to create multiple communities under one account
    8. Add support for Instagram / Tik-tok embeds in posts
    9. Add tiered membership options to allow communities to create customized membership plans.
      1. Allow community owners to associate the plans with various access levels and actions within the community such as restricting content and boards behind the membership tiers.
    10. Add filters to boards and browse page to sort by different constraints
    11. Add user created sub-categories to our categories on our "browse" page
      1. This will improve the discoverability of communities as you will be able to further narrow down your search based on specific niches and topics.
    12. Add light mode theme
    13. [Released] Add code blocks when creating a post/comment
    14. Add ability to add community polls
    15. Add ability to "pin" posts to a board
    16. Improve the user profile page
      1. The design for this page needs a refresh. It's one of the older pages of the app and hasn't been touched in a while.
      2. Add the users post and comment history to the page.
    17. Add ability to transfer ownership of a community
    18. Add ability to rename a community
    19. Add ability to hide communities/posts from appearing on the browse/home page
    20. Add comment "lines" that help show which replies belong to which comment
    21. Add RSS support to communities
      1. Look into offering an integration with our moderation tooling
    22. [Released] Show "OP" indicator on comments
    23. Add ability to view posts in boards in "Compact" mode
    24. [Released] Add "Link" and "Image" post types
      1. This will help make it easier for us to format the content to do things like showing a thumbnail for links and sizing the images.
    
    While we have other stuff we plan to implement, this is just a list of some things on our immediate horizon. We look forward to hearing from the community on what else they'd like to see.
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    10 months ago
    I'm going to spend some time soon and put together a community guidelines document. I would have liked to have had this in place sooner, but the Reddit news caught us a bit by surprise and forced our hand into launching a bit quicker than expected. Stay tuned.
    @dan
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    10 months ago
    Looking good so far!
    @Ian
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    10 months ago
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    @Its_Hot
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    10 months ago
    I think these are some really great goals, and I'm excited to see them come together. I would like to also see an easier way to add an image to a post. Embedding youtube vids is great, but I think pictures would be really nice.
    @Sociables
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    10 months ago
    Hey, sorry for the confusion.
    The other dev and I were actually just talking about the image upload user experience yesterday and how we need to make it better.
    Currently to upload an image or embed an Imgur link, you have to either drag the image into the textbox or paste the Imgur link directly into where you type. The button that pops open the window where you paste a link is for embedding YouTube links.
    We will be adding a button in that same toolbar soon to provide another method for adding images where its more clear on how to do it. We also will be providing a better prompt in that popup window for embedding videos to explain what types of content it accepts.
    Apologies about the confusion!
    @Sociables
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    10 months ago
    Just to follow up, we recently did a release that addressed making it easier to upload images to posts.