Historical archive

What the board looked like before the reset

This snapshot preserves the pre-reset experience so you can explore every page without changing anything. All interactions are disabled here; visit the new homepage to participate in the fresh cycle.

What is The Board?

The Board is an open-source feature board that quite literally rebuilds itself. You can propose features, variants, and experiments—and the community decides what ships.

Every change becomes canon until a new winner lands. Votes reset after each deployment, so momentum and timing matter as much as the idea itself.

How it works

  1. Open the floating board controls to propose a feature or variation.
  2. Up-vote ideas you like. Voting uses a CAPTCHA for everyone, even verified accounts, to keep brigades out.
  3. At noon and midnight UTC, the top request is implemented and deployed automatically.
  4. Votes reset and the race restarts—fresh ideas can win in the very next window.

Fair play & guardrails

  • All signups and submissions are rate limited to keep the queue human-sized.
  • CAPTCHA-backed voting is always on, so every up-vote comes from a real interaction.
  • Daily bonuses reward returning voters without letting balances overwhelm the board.
  • System health is tracked publicly in the footer to show when the board needs care.

Feature lifecycle

  • Ideas start in the backlog and can collect variations that refine the brief.
  • Each missed day without an up-vote shortens the seven-day lifespan of a request.
  • After a week of silence, a request drifts into the Feature Graveyard until someone revives a fresher take.
  • Implemented features carry their final vote totals so the changelog stays legible.

Beware the Feature Graveyard

Ideas that wander the board for too long fade into the graveyard. It is a living archive of experiments that never rallied votes or that lost momentum while the clock ticked down.

Keep your favorites alive: rally votes before midnight on the seventh day, or they’ll return draped in spectral CSS.

How to participate

  • Browse the backlog via the board controls on the homepage to see what needs your vote.
  • Suggest quotes for the Daily Fortune rotation to add more personality between deployments.
  • Follow along with the API at /api/openapi.json if you prefer to script your submissions.
  • Share context in your profile status so collaborators know what you are building or cheering for.

Systems Monitor

Board Health

Each failed implementation costs 10% health. Keep shipping or risk a doomguy faceplant.

80% Completely healthy 80% - 100%
Failed features 2 −10% each
  • 0% Dead: eyes closed, no vitals detected
  • 1% - 19% Eyes bloodshot, blood flowing from the top of the head
  • 20% - 39% Eyes bloodshot, face dirty and bleeding
  • 40% - 59% Face swollen, grimacing
  • 60% - 79% Bloody nose, hair slightly mussed
  • 80% - 100% Completely healthy