Ideas

What the board is

A public list of what streamers asked us to build. Every idea is a page with a title, a description, a vote count and comments. The ones people want most get built first — that is what the votes are for.

Reading it needs nothing: the board is open to everyone, in the app and on straimer.com. Voting, commenting and proposing need a strAImer account.

Proposing an idea

Ideas → Propose an idea. A one-line title, a description, and two things beside them: which part of strAImer the idea is about, and screenshots.

Screenshots explain an idea faster than a paragraph. Attach them with the button, by dragging a file onto the form, or with Ctrl+V from the clipboard — up to four per idea, images only. They become public together with the idea; until it is published, only you and we can see them.

Send stays off until the pictures are through. The text goes first, the pictures after it, and the line under the button says Sending the images… while that happens. Wait for it: pressing Send a second time in the meantime used to send the same idea twice.

Which module it is about is a list beside the description. Leave it as it is when nothing fits — it only helps us understand what you mean. Coming to the form from a module's page in the catalogue fills it in for you.

While you type the title, the app shows ideas that already say something similar. That is worth a look before you finish — an idea asked for by twelve people moves faster than the same thing split across five separate pages.

Under the description there is a short list of what is worth mentioning: what it is and how it looks, what gets in the way now, whether you have seen it elsewhere, where it should show up (OBS, the app, or both — and whether the platform matters), what you would want to adjust, and who it helps.

The second point is the one that pays off most. "I cannot reach the keyboard mid-fight" tells us more than "add a hotkey", because there may be a better answer than a hotkey.

Answering all of it is not required. It exists because a one-line idea — "add a button that blinks" — cannot be discussed or judged: nobody can tell where it appears, what it configures or who needs it. The more of the list is covered, the less we have to guess.

Five ideas a day per account. Not a judgement — a spam limit.

Sent it and spotted a typo? While the idea is still waiting for review you can open it and press Edit — the title, the description and the module are all editable. Once it is published the text is fixed: by then people have read it and voted for what it said.

Pictures while the idea waits

The pictures are yours to change for as long as the idea is Waiting for review. Open it from the Mine tab: every picture has Remove under it, and Attach a screenshot adds more, up to the same four in total.

• Removing asks first, and the file is then gone for good.
• The Remove buttons are not there while you are editing the text. Removing a picture redraws the page, and that would throw away what you had typed.
• A screenshot that did not upload can be put back here. That is what these buttons are for: before, a picture lost on the way was lost for good.

Pictures are shown as squares, four in a row, and clicking one opens it full size. The same list with the same two buttons is in your account on straimer.com, under Your ideas.

Once the idea is published its pictures are fixed, exactly like its text: people have already read it as it stood.

What happens next

Every idea is read before it appears on the board. This is not only approval: we often rewrite the title so people searching for the same problem can find the page. The text you sent is kept, and you can always see it.

Then the idea gets a state, and it changes as work moves:

• Collecting votes — published, and people can vote for it.
• In development — taken into work.
• Shipped — done. The page links to where the finished thing is described.
• Not planned — with a reason, in plain words. Silence would be worse.

Your own ideas are in the Mine tab, including the ones still waiting. A dot appears next to Ideas when something happened to one of them.

Your language

Write the idea in whatever language you use strAImer in. Nothing is expected of you here — we translate it.

The board shows the ideas that exist in your language. An idea proposed in Spanish this morning may not be on the German board yet: it appears there once it has been translated, and it carries the same votes and the same comments — there is one idea, not one per language.

Your own ideas are always in the Mine tab, translated or not. If a translation is still missing you see the text you sent.

Voting

The number on the left of every idea is how many people want it. Click it to add your vote, click again to take it back — one vote per account.

There is no downvote, on purpose. "Fifty people want this" tells us what to build first; "thirty do not" tells us nothing — those thirty simply will not turn the feature on. If you disagree with an idea, say why in a comment: that is useful to everyone, including its author.

Comments

Under every idea. This is where an idea gets better: how it should behave, what it must not break, what would make it useless. The person who proposed it reads them too.

In the app, Enter sends the comment and Shift+Enter starts a new line, as in every conversation there (see Help).

On straimer.com every comment has a Useful mark of its own, next to the comment. Use it when a comment adds something — a case nobody thought of, a reason it would break, a simpler way to do the same thing. It does not move the idea up the queue; it says which of the replies under it are worth reading. There is no mark against a comment, for the same reason there is none against an idea: disagreement is worth a reply with a reason, not a minus.

The same mark is in the app, under every comment on the idea screen. Both the list of ideas and the comments under one can be reordered there: ideas by votes or newest first, comments in the order they were written or by usefulness.

Your name on the board

Ideas and comments are signed with the Nickname from your strAImer account. While it is empty, the name from the platform you signed in with is used, and for Google that is your real first and last name.

1. Open straimer.com/app and its Account and devices tab.
2. Type the name into the Nickname card and press Save.

The new name shows on your earlier ideas and comments as well, not only on new ones. The app has no field for it: the nickname is set only in the cabinet.

The same board on the site

straimer.com/ideas — the same list, readable without signing in and shareable by link. Signed in, you can vote and comment there as well. The Ideas tab of your account shows what happened to the ideas you proposed, and an idea can be proposed from there too.