I think I can predict what would happen,
People would post into it, and Victron would be perceived as not responding and implementing the requests in a timely manner.
Maybe some good ones come from it, but many will not, and we will also not be spending much time explaining why not, so then it looks like it is ignored.
And I donāt want to have a main category that is showcasing us apparently ignoring requests after it looks like we are inviting them by creating a special category for them.
There are a lot of really great things about Victron, but we donāt have lots of spare capacity for implementing end-user feature requests. Rather already we have a very large list of our own from our internal product directions, and some from our other channels such as commercial demand from our dealers and distributors.
I like that feature requests emerge from this community, and there are many very smart people here with lots of good ideas, but there is no process for me to be doing any kind of management of their implementation, nor for the R&D teams.
Itās already a pretty careful balance that is geared towards identifying bugs and issues, either in hardware, software, firmware, documentation and training. In that area where I think this community is really exceptional because they are very timely and experienced in the field by individuals, and then its super useful to have a fast and direct line of communication.
But that is already a lot for me to manage.
There is one or two exceptions, for example in VRM, where I have a lot more direct contact with the development team, and feel a lot more connected to the product (I am a daily active user), and the priorities. There I can be more receptive to feature requests, but I donāt expect there are more than the current structure can handle.