Recently Casey Ho emerged from the Pidgin community doing many interesting things trying to gather feedback from the users, but what really got me interested was the new brainstorm based on Ubuntu’s brainstorm.

In a very short time it received hundreds of votes and very good feedback on Casey Ho’s blog. Apparently it was too convenient, and Pidgin devs didn’t like that.

Just like in a totalitarian rule, the brainstorm was quickly shut-down regardless of what users thought. Luke Schierer explained the reasons, which can be narrowed down to: developers whined about yet another place to receive feedback.

So, when users organize that doesn’t help to build a community, but a... ... read more >>> felipec.wordpress.com