Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

Like Tumblr, for forums.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22591026

Obligatory, are we rich yet?

That took them 6 years, and we are 6 months in. I'm pleased with where we are, but...

is there anything to do yet? transferal?

Actually there is, I need more feedback.

Most of the bugs have been worked through and the site is usable. The question now is: What is wrong with it? What is it missing? What is it not doing well?

We need negative feedback, to focus on where we can improve and where we're falling short so that we can prioritise our work and resolve the big things first and apply polish where it need be applied.

Things I think we need very soon:

1) Email notifications (thread you've posted in has been replied to, someone quoted you, etc)

2) Polls (we have the foundation but they're not finished).

3) Usergroups and permissions (currently everyone can do pretty much everything, but forums here have moderators and we need some way of distributing the moderation effort across Microcosms)

And there's still a long list of other things we need (including private messaging, better profiles, being able to reply to things by email, etc), but those are what I believe the priorities are.

The best way to help me sort the priorities is to find out why it's not being used today (beyond it being a test site), to find out which bits you don't like, or miss, and for me to basically work through those things.

So I'd really like it if people were quite vocal (to us) about the things they didn't like, and the things they feel are glaring omissions.

And you can get a feel for it here:
https://lfgss.microcosm.app/

And you can tell us your views here:
https://lfgss.microcosm.app/microcosms/62/

Though if you're technical and you've found a code bug in the front-end, then feel free to use Github Issues which we will always observe and work through:
https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb/issues