The developer community is getting kind of mad at the latest updates that Roblox has pushed. But what if we could make the community happy?
Introducing: Feature Friday
Every Friday, there will be a poll on the forum with the top 10 requested features lately. The one that gets voted for the most will get a chance to be worked on.
This would give developers a chance to participate in what features are going to be rolled out on the platform. Every Friday not might be suitable, so maybe the first Friday of every month would work well.
Popularity vote is not the right way to prioritize feature requests. People will generally ask for faster horses instead of asking for cars. Moreover, this assumes every voter will be equally productive on the platform and thus have as much stake as anyone else on what problems should be solved, which is not necessarily right to do all the time either.
Feature prioritization for impact is a complicated problem with many trade-offs to be taken, and affected by timing and internal context, so it is best left to product managers at Roblox on a case-by-case basis.
They should just do a better job explaining the estimated priority of each problem reported by the community and how they stack up against other stuff on the public roadmap.