How Many Votes Needed to Implement "Wishlist" Feature Requests?

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Hello Petar, that’s a great question, thank you!

As much as we’d love to release new (and highly anticipated) updates and features, we need to keep a lot of factors in mind.

I’ll try to break down the idea behind the Wishlist category and the way we handle all inbound suggestions.

First off, the Wishlist category is open for any Elfsight user to share any idea, suggestion, or request, and we try our best to consider them. However, we cannot guarantee (and never do) that a suggestion, no matter how popular it might become, will be released 100%.

And these are the main reasons:

  • Team involvement in urgent tasks: We also focus on infrastructure maintenance, global updates (like overhauling the dashboard or updating billing workflows), which may shift priorities or delay release dates.

  • Model considerations: Not every request aligns with the model we follow. We aim to provide the best tools, but we also need to keep them affordable. This puts limits on what we can do.

  • Prioritization by technical complexity: Some features that seem simple might require months of preparation, and we need to factor that in when deciding what to add to the roadmap.

Now, circling back to your questions:

  1. We review our Wishlist category once a quarter to add new suggestions to the roadmap. Usually, such requests get marked as “Planned” here on the forum, so you’ll know what we’re currently focusing on.

  2. There’s no fixed number of votes required, but we do consider the most popular requests first. Typically, “most popular” ones start with 50-60 upvotes.

  3. While public roadmap sounds like a great idea, we don’t have one just yet. Even having a roadmap doesn’t ensure everything will go according to the plan, and we don’t want to create false expectations. If anything changes in this regard, we’ll reconsider sharing a public roadmap with the community :slight_smile:

For now, you can keep tabs on In-Progress and Planned tags - these indicate what we’re currently working on.

As for the AI Chatbot widget, we’re on the same page - I know the dev team is giving it special attention, so let’s see what new updates we can expect :blush:

Thank you for your involvement, Petar, always happy to hear from you!

Merry Christmas! :christmas_tree:

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