I just passed by again the Connections Product Ideas Portal after long time.
There are still 685 ideas "under review", but only 19 "planned". I am not sure about what's the difference between "planned" and the 41 "near term focus" / 281 "mid term focus" ideas. Realistic, I am not considering 410 "future considerations", which most likely might be count to low likelihood of delivery.
Is the Product Ideas Portal still managed / maintained? Especially, as the SPAM entries become more and more, just some examples:
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1595
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1596
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1802
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1880
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1881
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1882
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1886
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1887
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1899
https://connections-ideas.hcltechsw.com/ideas/IDEACNCTNS-I-1903
Hi Maik Weber,
i thinks yes! I received notifications end of last year.
Best Regards
Max
I think the status "planned" is for future software updates.
The status "future considerations" is the consideration to include it in new software updates but you don’t know when exactly.
Notifications might be send by the system. So, that might be not a proof that the ideas are still maintained.
From my point of view, the different status "Planned" / "Near term focus" / "Medium term focus" are ideas which have been already reviewed ... while "Planned" is most concrete/highes progress and "Near/Medium term focus" is not yet fixed in terms of how-to/bugdet/time. Finally, "Future considerations" are interesting ideas, but no plan yet to review in detail or even implementation.
Now, looking at "Planned" ideas, those are already 2 years and older.
Please, do not understand this post as a negative criticism. However, HCL and especially its support team uses the Product Ideas Portal in many times to close cases (regardless if it is an error or real enhancement request). Looking at the "Under review" ideas, you will find some "enhancement requests" which are bugs in reality.
I was wondering about the purpose of the Product Ideas Portal, especially as the number of "Under review" ideas is growing more and more, while "Planned" or "Near term focus" ideas get older and older. Now, in addition, SPAM entries get added. This SPAM might be also a security problem of the underlying software AHA.io (e.g. creating ideas without authentication), but in a managed application I would expect that somebody recognizes this SPAM and deletes it in time.
Yes, we are continuing to use the Aha site to collect and prioritize requests, so please continue voting and contributing. We recognize we've fallen a bit behind in keeping the status up to date, and have made a commitment in the new year to catch back up.