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The ideas keeps coming… And soon we will be able to give some feedback! A blog will come soon. Meanwhile, here are some appetizers:

• New status for ideas: “Already implemented” and “Blueprint approved”. The former will be useful to separate new cutting edge ideas just being implemented from the rest, while the latter will allow us to introduce the important role of the blueprint.
• New field for the ideas: “target release”. That will be useful to set a target for ideas in progress, and to set the initial availability of implemented ideas.
• The “Random ideas” list does not show anymore the ideas you have already voted for/against, neither the implemented ideas. Useful for the hardcore voters (Yeah, I did see one user who has voted almost every idea!)
• Display a clear message on the idea page for every non-new idea, so that the status of the idea is pretty clear.
• Removed the idea menu, barely noticeable, and added tabs. I hope the image links will be more noticeable then.
• Modify “most popular week/month” pages so that ideas no older than one day are not shown. This will give a chance to older ideas to stand up amongst the newer ones.
• Disable the ability of the bug/spec status to influence the idea status. Three reasons:
  • Users were sometimes putting bad entries, and were complaining at the wrong status.
  • Hard to maintain code.
  • 33% increase of SQL processing.

Finally, the stats of the week: 22,000 comments, 600,000 votes, 13,600 users, 5,600 ideas (1171 dups, 340 deleted), 2300 dup reports