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. Two fields: a one-line title and a description.

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.

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.

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.

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.