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Put them here. You're welcome to add yours or share thoughts, or collaborate.

User:Gryllida/Flow - now updated and more structured.

Brainstorming, anyone?

Oh, thanks for posting your thoughts! We're planning to change the Hide, Close and Summarize features soon -- and the current plans are very similar to what you've proposed. :)

The first change will be not collapsing Closed conversations by default. I agree with you that Closed topics aren't bad conversations that should be hidden away -- they're often successful conversations, where a decision was reached. That change should be out in a week or two.

We're also planning a larger redesign on Close and Summarize. We want to give more emphasis to the summary as editable text, and not discourage people from participating in conversations with a summary. We'd also like to make Closed feel more like Y Resolved.

For Hide -- I think it's clear that right now, hidden topics aren't hidden enough. Good faith editors should have the ability to remove spam and vandalism from the page, without leaving a huge "click here to see the upsetting thing" button. To make that work, we need to do some more work on the board history, to make it easy to unhide a thread that was hidden inappropriately.

Basically -- it should be easy for a good person to hide bad topics. If a bad person hides a good topic, then it should be easy for a good person to put it back on the board. We need to do some more UI work to make sure that we've got both sides working.

Here's the Trello card for not collapsing closed threads.