Indeed one the reasons we put the comment forum threads on the list is because it is a pretty low lift due to it being able to rely on the existing forum infrastructure, while it can provide decent value and handle anything from reviews to feedback to support to showcasing work people made with what they bought.
We are hoping to get to it in January. That is what I will try to push for at least.
The reason we are looking at having both the comments threads and text reviews is that the text review feature would provide a cleaner list of actual reviews as opposed to what might be hundreds of replies of technical discussions or questions to wade through, and more control. With a forum we would not be able to limit text reviews solely to those who actually purchased the asset which might increase abuse, and we would not be able to manage it in other ways that could help improve the quality of the reviews. For ex a forum would not allow us to randomize the reviews shown, or whatever other mechanism we want to try.
The combo of forum comment threads + wishlists should hopefully be an improvement already. The reason we got wishlists ahead of text reviews is based on the fact that the wishlist is easier to implement. Text reviews are harder because there is also a moderation component to it. I understand text reviews have a big value, but we felt that the sum of a range of easier to implement changes together may still have a good impact, and allow us to bring improvements faster than doing a single larger feature that will take time to get through. That is what drove our prioritization basically.
We can look into this, but what is the dev platform?
Yes, several of us in the team would really like to see this happen too. It will probably come at some point.
You can hide AI content via a switch. And as per the roadmap we will make that switch persistent so once you enabled it, it will stick.
Yeah that might be better. Though for sellers with a lot of stuff this is going to lead to confusing situations probably. Ideally you can pick how you want to do it, but as that would add complexity I think for now we probably need to settle on one per product.
Long term we have this idea that we’d love to be able to offer an entire mini forum/community per creator, but that is not that easy to set up on a Discourse based forum, and at a scale of potentially hundreds of thousands of mini forums. That is probably more like a 2026 thing at the earliest.
Indeed, that was our original thinking too. Maybe optional is best.
All of that makes a lot of sense. When we get closer to starting work on the text reviews and ratings we will take all of this into account. The intend with the multiple ratings is to try and summarize things into a clear metric but maybe it is overthinking it.
And I will discuss the 5 review minimum with the team. I see that come up a lot.
Got it, optional it probably is then.