Ideas Hub

The Ideas Hub is where you can share feature requests and feedback directly with the Lumio team — and vote on suggestions from other community members. It is open to all registered users and, depending on configuration, to unauthenticated visitors as well.

Where to Find It

• Dashboard → Hub → Ideas (/hub/ideas) — accessible when logged in to any account.
• Public site (/ideas) — may be open for browsing without a login (when the public flag is enabled by the Lumio team).
• Feed — subscribe at /ideas/feed.xml to follow new ideas in your feed reader.

Browsing Ideas

The main ideas page shows all submitted ideas. You can narrow the list using the controls at the top:

• Status filter — show only Open, Planned, In Progress, In Testing, Completed, or Closed ideas.
• Category filter — show ideas in a specific category.
• Search — type to filter by title or description.
• Sort — order by Newest, Most Voted (net score, upvotes minus downvotes), Most Discussed (comment count), or Recently Updated.

Your filter and sort choices are written into the page URL, so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.

Each idea card shows the category badge, a status badge, the title, a short description excerpt, up to three tags, the author and creation date, vote counts, and the comment count. The list loads more ideas automatically as you scroll — there is no pager.

Statuses

Status	Meaning
Open	Accepting votes and comments
Planned	Acknowledged and on the roadmap
In Progress	Being actively worked on
In Testing	Feature built, being tested before release
Completed	Feature shipped
Closed	Declined or no longer active

Completed and Closed ideas are read-only: voting, commenting, and editing are all switched off for them.

Creating an Idea

To submit a new idea, click the Share your idea... box at the top of the list. A full-screen, three-step wizard opens:

Step	Fields	Required	Notes
1	Title, Category	Yes	Title is capped at 200 characters; pick one of the categories the Lumio team configured
2	Description	No	A rich-text editor with formatting buttons — you style text directly, you do not write Markdown
3	Tags	No	Type to search existing tags, or click the + suggestion to create a new one

Finish with Submit Idea. The idea appears in the list with Open status and a vote count of zero.

You need to be logged in to submit an idea. Anonymous visitors can browse and read but cannot create.

Voting

Each idea has two vote buttons — thumbs-up (upvote) and thumbs-down (downvote). Click either button to cast your vote. Your active vote is highlighted. Click the same button again or the other button to change or remove your vote.

• You can only have one vote per idea at a time.
• Removing a vote is done by clicking your active vote button again.
• Ideas with status Completed or Closed no longer accept votes; the page shows a notice instead of the buttons.

Voting requires an account login.

Commenting

Open an idea by clicking its title to go to the detail page. A comment field appears below the idea content.

Posting a comment: type your message in the rich-text field and click Comment. The editor gives you formatting buttons — you do not write Markdown.

Replying to a comment: click the Reply button under any comment. A reply composer slides in from the bottom of the screen. Replies nest up to three levels deep; below that, further replies attach at the deepest level.

Editing your comment: click the Edit (pencil) icon on your own comment. The body becomes an editable field; save with the Save button.

Deleting your comment: click the Delete (trash) icon on your own comment. A confirmation prompt appears, and the comment — along with its replies — is removed from the thread for good.

Like votes, commenting is closed once an idea reaches Completed or Closed.

@Mentions in Comments

When writing a comment, type @ to mention other users who have already interacted with the idea. An autocomplete dropdown appears showing matching participants — the idea author, users who voted, and previous commenters — filtered by whatever you type after @.

• Select a name from the dropdown to insert a highlighted mention into your comment.
• Mentioned users receive a notification in their bell dropdown and, depending on their notification preferences, an email as well.
• Mentions render as highlighted @Name text in the posted comment.

Only participants of the idea appear in the autocomplete — you cannot @mention arbitrary users, and a mention that slips past the dropdown is dropped when the comment is saved. Mentioning yourself sends no notification. Mentions work in comments and comment edits only; the idea description field has no mention autocomplete.

@mentions require a login. The autocomplete dropdown is not shown to anonymous visitors.

Sharing an Idea

Every idea has a public page you can link to directly. On an idea's detail page, click the Share button in the action bar to copy the idea's public URL (/ideas/{id}) to your clipboard — the button briefly shows Link copied to confirm.

Anyone with the link can open the public idea page to read the idea along with its comments and timeline, without signing in (when the Ideas Hub public pages are enabled by the Lumio team). Visitors still need to sign in to vote or comment. The Share button appears on both the dashboard detail page and the public idea page.

Editing Your Idea

On your own idea's detail page, click the Edit button. The same three-step wizard opens, pre-filled, and you can update:

• Title and Category (step 1)
• Description (step 2)
• Tags (step 3)

Finish with Save Changes. Changes to the title, description, or category are recorded as timeline entries. Tag changes are saved but are not recorded on the timeline.

You can only edit ideas you submitted. Editing other users' ideas requires a moderation role. The Edit button disappears once an idea reaches Completed or Closed.

Timeline

The detail page for each idea shows a timeline of status changes and edits, between the idea body and the comments. This gives you a clear history of how the idea has progressed — when it was submitted, when it moved from Open to Planned, and when the title, description, or category was updated. Entries are listed newest first; the five most recent are shown, with a Load more control for the rest.

Tags

When submitting or editing an idea, start typing in the Tags field to search existing tags. If the tag you want does not exist yet, click the + entry at the top of the suggestion list to create it. Tags are shared across all ideas and are stored in lowercase, so Overlays and overlays are the same tag. An idea can carry up to 20 tags.

Feed

Subscribe to the Atom feed at /ideas/feed.xml to track new ideas without visiting the site. The feed contains the 50 most recently created ideas regardless of status, and each entry links to that idea's public page, carries its category and status, and summarises its vote and comment counts. The feed is served only while the public Ideas Hub pages are enabled by the Lumio team.

Troubleshooting

"I can't see the Ideas Hub"

The dashboard Ideas Hub requires the system:ideas_hub feature flag to be enabled by the Lumio team. If Ideas is not visible under Hub in the sidebar, the feature may be temporarily unavailable.

The public pages (/ideas, /ideas/{id}, and the feed) additionally require system:ideas_hub_public. With that flag off, the public pages return "not found" even though the dashboard hub still works for logged-in users.

"I can't submit an idea or vote"

Creating ideas and voting requires a login. If you are already logged in and the buttons are still disabled, your account may have the Restricted user role, which can read ideas and comments but cannot submit, vote, or comment. Contact the Lumio team.

Votes and comments are also closed on ideas with status Completed or Closed — that applies to everyone, whatever your role.

"The submit button is greyed out"

The first step needs both a Title and a Category before it will let you continue, and the title has to be 200 characters or shorter. Description and tags are optional.

"My comment disappeared but I didn't delete it"

Comments can be removed by Lumio moderators. Deletion is permanent and removes any replies underneath the comment as well, so a whole sub-thread can vanish when its parent is moderated.

Related

• Ideas (Admin) — moderation, categories, and tag management
• Ideas Hub feature doc — architecture, voting model, WebSocket channels