Roll20 has officially delivered 28 of the top 50 most upvoted feature requests on our Suggestions & Ideas Forum since it came online in 2016. Thanks to a major shift in how Roll20 listens to and acts on ideas from our users, 70% of those happened in the last three and a half years.
Releases like the new Jumpgate tabletop engine and D&D 2024 (+Beacon sheet infrastructure) have provided our developers with more stable and modern infrastructural foundations from which they can build, which means they can more easily address and implement your ideas.
Suggestions & Ideas
Amid the rise and fall of various community communication channels and social media platforms over the last decade, Roll20’s forums have remained a constant source of connection with our users.
Specifically, the Suggestions & Ideas Forum has been a place for players and GMs to request and vote for tools and features that would improve their unique play experiences.
Although the nearly 14,000 community votes cast by players and GMs have helped our teams prioritize and gauge proportional community impact, it’s important to mention that the thoughtful discussions that happen in the comments of those threads are just as important to us. The creative brainstorming and ideation taking place in those spaces feed directly to our product, design, and development teams, inspiring their work to improve Roll20.
How Does it Work?
If you’ve never used the Suggestions & Ideas Forum, or are looking for a refresher, we’ve got you. Here’s how voting works.
Votes are earned based on:
- Playtime: 1 vote after your first 20 hours, then 1 more every additional 50 hours played
- Account age: 1 vote for every 5 months your account has been active
- Subscription: 10 bonus votes for each year subscribed
So, for example, someone who started their account two years ago and has had a Plus subscription for a year with 120 hours played has 17 votes to spend.
After a feature that was voted on is delivered, the votes that were allocated to it on the Forum are returned to users, so they can spend them on their next favorite idea. (Plus, they always have the option to recall and redistribute their votes to the ideas they care about most at any given point in time.)
Let’s Build Together
As we’ve delivered more top-voted suggestions and released new features, we’ve seen some interesting shifts in the requests rising to the top of the Forum. For example, Custom Compendium was ranked #5 in 2021, but with other ideas completed, it has risen to the very top of our ranking.
It’s important to call out that not all suggestions are addressed strictly based on their vote count/ranking on the forum. Some of the ideas lower on the list find their to our roadmaps sooner if they’re:
- Closely related to features already in progress
- Nuanced extensions of higher-voted suggestions
Similarly, some of the highest-voted ideas might take longer to address because they:
- Require more technical work or touch complicated systems
- Depend on other improvements being addressed first
- Call for the collaboration of several teams (larger, complex features)
As you can see, the Forums on Roll20 are more than a wishlist or bulletin board. They’re an important part of what makes Roll20 YOURS. As we continue to grow and improve, we encourage you to participate in the Suggestions & Ideas Forum, whether voting, posting, or both! Every voice matters, and you never know when an idea specific to your campaign might end up changing things for the entire community.
So go ahead and use your votes to request better Art Library Management, Map Pins, Elevation Support, or share a new idea.