Add a "Features Request Discussion" category to the user forum.

[SteveRMann]

Describe your request

Add a "Feature Request Discussion" category on the Users Forum

Why the uncertainty?

There is no "User Forum" category in Feature Requests.

Use cases

Any user who feels passionately about a feature request posted on GitHub will promote it on the forum. Where? Where will the thread land? Why? Because most users will not regularly monitor the GitHub forum.

What areas might this affect?

This would increase the Feature Request feedback from the average users without forcing users to join TWO separate forums.

Anything else?

Devs don’t watch the user forum posts- they have made that quite clear. Users mostly don’t watch GitHub.

If a user posts a feature request on GitHub, that’s the end of it. Other users don’t know there is a new features request. Unless the posting user further clutters the default “Configuration” category with discussion of the request.

The “Features Request Discussion” category is where users will be able to discuss their request with other users, possibly finding support from other users (the purpose of user forums?) and even workarounds or alternate solutions.

There is NO CONNECTION between GitHub and the Users Forum, so most users will never know of new feature requests or even have the opportunity to discuss them and decide if they want to endorse the request with a vote. The entry into the Home Assistant world has been lowered to the point that the average user has never even heard of GitHub.

Anyone who feels passionately about a feature request posted on GitHub will promote it on the user forum. Where? Where will the thread land? This is why a FR Discussion category on the forum would benefit everyone.

It would have made more sense to update the Feature Requests category on the existing user forum and make the developers join the users forum.