Thanks @paulofonseca for this proposal and for leading this initiative. Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a lot of discussions / proposals around DAO tooling for enabling efficient delegate participation via forums and other comms channels and we welcome all efforts geared at solving this challenge.
Even for a two-year period, on a surface level, it’s hard to justify why this would require a budget of $200k. Could you provide at least high-level details on what it will take to build and maintain these forum integrations, so we can both assess and get a clearer sense of how much capacity is required to pull this off?
In line with the previous point on costs, I believe this feature (email notifications) has already been implemented on the app (I signed up and subscribed to the feature), meaning the functionality has already been built and is already accessible anyways? In my understanding, the only thing to be done here is allowing users to access the (already existing) feature via the forum rather than building a new feature from scratch? Please let me know if my understanding is correct.
Otherwise, I believe the email notifications feature is perhaps the most important one here. From a delegate standpoint, this would be very helpful. Discourse has a native feature that allows you to track *existing discussions/threads, but being able to be notified about newly created discussions will be incredibly helpful.
In my view, features centred around forum notifications are the most valuable for delegates. There is a lot to keep track of in terms of updates, discussions, etc. For instance (and perhaps as a suggestion), enabling highly customizable notifications is something we would 100% get behind. We don’t just want to be notified of all posts, which, in itself, is not very different from manually checking the “New” tab on the forum every now and then. We want to be able to filter for specific posts, authors, forum tags, or even specific keywords. This will massively improve the experience for us as delegates and truly help us stay in the weeds of what’s being discussed at every point in time.