Reorganising & improving our forum

reviewing specific activities

voting

decisions category

things that aren’t ideal:

  • can’t see who voted - anonymous voting maybe not appropriate for a small group

  • calix will look into changing default to “show who voted”

  • calix debug / research why public option isn’t working

  • notifications to people are important. category with auto-watching

  • done!

  • difficult to edit polls after, so maybe some kind of human process around the development of votes, at what point do they get posted to the forum etc.

future = separate platform, when we need it

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