Category For Community Forum Feature Requests

It would be GREAT to have a CATEGORY to make feature requests for the Bitwarden Community Forum itself. :slightly_smiling_face:

My first request would to ADD Bluesky to the list of available socials in a profile. Many of us have moved there.

@SomeoneInSanDiego Welcome to the forum!

Is this Feature Request about 1) a new forum category, 2) adding Bluesky to the list of available socials in a profile or 3) both?

@SomeoneInSanDiego Welcome to the forum!

I did have to move your post into the main Ask the Community category, which is the closest thing we have to a general discussion category. Your proposal, while it has merits, was not requesting a new feature for the Bitwarden Password Manager.

If I may add my personal opinion, I think that creating a feature request category for the forum itself would create confusion and frustration, because the forum software is developed by a third party (Discourse) — i.e., Bitwarden has no control over the development of the forum platform features.

Some subset of proposals may be possible to implement by adjusting Discourse configuration settings, but in this case, I think your best bet is to try to get the attention of forum admins (e.g., @dwbit) and make your case directly to them.

I looked into this a little bit, and found that Discourse implements the appearance of profiles using themes. There is at least one theme available with social links that does include Bluesky as an option:

 

But we’d have to ask @dwbit to find out whether Bitwarden’s Community Forum uses the discourse-social-links-clickable theme, and if so, why Bluesky is not available as an option. Maybe all that is needed is to for Bitwarden admins to update the default setting on Line 23 of the settings.yml file:

Both. But as @grb noted, since the forum is hosted by Discourse, it probably should be a Category for Forum configuration. :slight_smile:

After reading two books: 1) Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, and, 2) Careless People, I have deleted my socials except Bluesky (which is the least toxic to me).

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Thanks @grb ! Will @dwbit see this request or do I need to reach out personally about this?

No need to for a PM. The fact that he has already been tagged three times in this thread means that with high likelihood, he will read the thread next week.

Thank you very much! :heart: