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[Aquillion]

I was reading through the dev items when I saw a few I had various comments on.  Then it occurred to me, why not set up a dedicated comment thread for each one, linked to from the respective item?

A lot of people don't read all the dev items.  And that's kind of understandable, really, given what a massive amount of text it comes to.  And, also, we were having problems with repeat suggestions on the forums.

So why not combine these two problems, and set up a forum-thingy (or some kind of comment thread) for every core, req, bloat, and power-goal on the development page, where people can comment on that item, add their suggestions for it, and so on?  Basically, for every item in the dev log, there could be a link to its comment thread.

Then people will ignore both, of course...  but at least people could look in on that forum and see the most heavily-discussed things that are already planned.  And it would probably be a more convenient way to arrange such discussions, in the long term.  I also think it would be more fun to read them (and more people would do so) if there was a place for natter and comments for each, even if some items don't really need that much commentary.

A bit of a bother to set up, but it's something that people other than Toady can do much of the gruntwork for (as with the endless voting page we have now.)