Yep, at least 6 million over a year ago. More now since that was over a year ago. I don’t know how high it climbed in the last year, but definitely even higher than that now.
At least 122,761 registered users for this forum (not counting those who don’t officially register, but they aren’t able to vote anyway). I got that number from the Forum stats page, but the total number of users could actually be higher. So, yes, that’s likely less than 2% of the total user base.
Fair enough point. Though I was speaking relatively and in comparison to others. For example, there are wishlist requests that have more than 2,000 votes, which are still listed as “Maybe Later” (compared to the 291 votes this has), or some with over 900 replies, or 1.6K likes, 100,000 views (compared to this one’s relatively meager 60 replies, 55 likes, 14.2K views), and many of them are still listed as “Maybe Later” or “Probably Not” despite the high(er) demand.
That is not to say that this one can’t jump the line though. As you rightfully pointed out, it’s not just about votes, there are multiple considerations in what gets added to the roadmap, including this point you made:
These are great insights and things that are taken into account. In fact, if we look at the “In Progress” section we can see at least 35 items currently on the roadmap (in testing, development or researching) that have fewer votes than this request does.
So you’re absolutely correct that votes aren’t the only factor, I was simply indicating that they are something that helps a lot. (13 of the top 20 wishes that have at least 900 votes or more, have been granted or are in progress, and several more of them are likely to be accomplished through other wishes such as Matter compliance giving people access to Homekit, SmartThings, Home Assistant, Hubitat, and others). Some others are partially implemented, &/or have workarounds. So, still not 100% of the top 20, but overall it’s reasonable to say it’s pretty close to 80% and a lot more highly considered (compared to the way lower rates of those with lower votes). Definitely a statistically significant factor, but not the sole factor involved in deciding whether a request gets attempted/implemented.
As for moving a new comment to the bottom of the main thread. I can see multiple viewpoints on that. Some of it is limited by the discourse software being used. But I do think that overall it is helpful. The first post does allow people to select to “Summarize” the topic" with the comments most liked and viewed, and there are actually 2 scroll bars. One grey one to go comment by comment, and a second green scroll bar that lets people jump to the most recent conversation. In addition, other than the first time someone enters a thread, once a user has read something in the thread, it will start them back at where they left off the next time they open the thread, so they will only see the newest comments at the bottom after that, like when I opened it and it brought me straight to your comment because I’d already read all the ones above it previously. It told me there was new activity in this thread, and when I clicked on it, it brought me straight to your comment at the bottom. Putting new comments at the bottom of an ongoing thread actually INCREASES the visibility to that post because now it alerts every user related to that thread, who is watching or tracking it, that someone else said something, and now dozens or hundreds of people get notified about what you wrote, AND it bumps the topic to the top of the latest threads so new people see the discussion. If your post had been left on it’s own in an orphaned thread, it is actually likely fewer people would have seen or interacted with it (there are many examples), and any interactions with that post would not have added to the implied demand in the wishlist topic that is used and considered by the Wyze teams to determine what they should next add to their roadmap. Plus it does help keep things organized and make it easier for people to search and know which thread is the main discussion.
But I acknowledge different people can have different preferences for how forums and discussions be implemented. I am just sharing some of the rationales of how this way can be beneficial. I am glad you found how to navigate the forums a little bit. Discourse does try to get new users to do their tutorial to help them see how to navigate and use it a little easier, but I understand lots of people feel they don’t have the time to do so, or don’t care to do so.
Regardless, you make some great points, and as you said, a lot of the functionality is already there, so it might be easy enough to implement this, and it doesn’t necessarily need more votes. Wyze does take a lot of things into consideration, including how many users it would affect or would use it and several other things. We’ll just have to see. But even our current conversation here does help contribute to make it slightly more likely in the long run. 