Yes a point, but does this tagging not being done anyway otherwise how would the request to directed to the correct solution provider (or potential solution provider) within Wyze?
Sorry, I am totally not getting your reply. Could you try to restate it?
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Update: post are now being tagged as researching, maybe-later, in-development, launched or testing to give users an idea of the status.
We are also considering splitting this category into Roadmap and Wish List, with the former being features that are planned and the latter being feature requests that are not yet in the definite plans. If you have thoughts on this, please post below.
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This might be the better idea , Maybe a little less confusing , And seems like it would be less work than Getting things tagged
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I like that. Would also like to see some or more feedback from Wyze on the feasibility of a Roadmap item. “Maybe Later” really doesn’t tell us anything. For example: More flexible detection zones. Is that even possible with the current hardware? You’re asking us to vote, but at some point, say at 50 or 100 votes, don’t we deserve a little more feedback from Wyze? Managing expectations is important.
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I would highly support this. it would be very clear cut for ideas vs support
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Hi, my six Wyze Cams are arriving today, so I’m getting all signed up and into the community. I’m very excited.
I am also a software product manager and I love this approach to your roadmap visibility and capturing/displaying votes back on the main menu of features. Would you mind letting me know if the forum code is homegrown, or are you using a SaaS vendor? 
Thanks.
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Welcome to our community!
We’re happy to hear that you’re enjoying our Roadmap. As for your question, I wasn’t involved with the forum design so I don’t have that answer for you. Sorry about that!
Thanks for the response–is it something overly difficult to find out?
Yup! We’re using Discourse for this forum though the vote aspect is an available option but we modified some sections with a custom build. 
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You’re awesome–thank you so much!!
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You’re welcome! And you’re awesome, too! 
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Can you give us some color on the criteria Wyze uses to determine if/when things move from no comment to maybe-later to researching, etc…
Looking at the items in-development, It seems customer feedback and their votes play a smaller role than I initially thought.
Sure thing!
- launched - Has already been sent out to the public.
- testing - Usually means that it’s in beta testing though recently we used this for alpha features.
- in-development - Means that we’re actively working on it but we’re not ready for external testing.
- researching - We’re looking into this and trying to select a good method for implementation but we’re not at a point of working on it yet.
- maybe-later - This isn’t on our internal roadmap at this point but we’ve seen and considered it. Sometimes features that we plan to implement later but haven’t come up in the pipeline are in this category.
As for the in-development items, many of these had more votes with previous voting methods. But while there is a strong correlation between requests and features we work on, it’s not a perfect one. This is impacted by our ability to deliver the feature, if we found a method to implement it during the research stage, if something paves the way for a future feature, company goals, and what our resources are. Many of the features that we’re currently working on entered the pipeline before the Roadmap launched.
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Is it possible to have a third option to separate items being researched and items actually in being created. Or would the two be concidered the same?
I was thinking ‘researching’ would be defined as ‘investigating to see if possible and if it was feasible’ and ‘Working on’ defined as ‘in the development and/or testing phase’.
As for ‘in the future’ it might be asking too much but because the ‘in the future’ wish list is so long, could they be given a rating to indicate what kind of priority each item might be. Ie: 1 being high future priority, 2 being a long term priority. Right now all are what you might say are ‘when we get to it, we get to it’.
Knowing a feature has or doesn’t have a higher priority might sell more cams, Sinetimes it’s worth getting in on the low prices now and waiting for the upgrades is worth it. And sometimes knowing what you need isnt in the radar really saves a lot of frustration by allowing other solutions to be found.
Since there is the wishlist and with voting, some might not understand that a wishlist and opportunity to vote doesn’t mean any particular wish is going into production.
I know I made that mistake and experienced much frustration. Knowledge is power! I now have the power to make educated and sound decisions.
Thanks you and enjoy the rest of your week.
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After a feature graduates from the “researching” phase, it is moved over to the #roadmap category on the forum, which has its own set of tags. Take a look over there.
Also, we are considering adding a tag here, something like “not feasible”, or “not planned” to give folks a better idea of features that are not likely to be worked on any time soon for various reasons.
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Good to know, I didn’t know that ‘researching’ actually meant it was put on the Roadmap. I’ll have to check that out next. So many layers and areas of information, it gets confusing sometimes.
No, “researching” doesn’t mean it’s been moved to #roadmap. There are two tags in #wishlist:
researching - We’re looking into this and trying to select a good method for implementation but we’re not at a point of working on it yet.
maybe-later - This isn’t on our internal roadmap at this point but we’ve seen and considered it. Sometimes features that we plan to implement later but haven’t come up in the pipeline are in this category.
AFTER researching is done, it moves to #roadmap and will have one of these tags as it progresses further in development (from the bottom up):
launched - Has already been sent out to the public.
testing - Is a feature or product in beta testing.
in-development - Means that we’re actively working on it but we’re not ready for external testing.
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