It'd be great if Proton hosted their own (Discourse) community and feature request forums, e.g. forums.proton.me or discourse.proton.me and moved UserVoice and Reddit discussions there. Having a privacy-friendly place to discuss and vote for new features, post about company, product, and industry news, etc would be a welcome change to the privacy nightmare that is Reddit Corp and other social media platforms.

This UserVoice forum is overloaded with duplicate ideas. Discourse makes it simple to merge or split threads. Search for any idea on UserVoice and you find many posts about the same thing, many old without any “status” activity. It’s frustrating.

I fully understand the desire to outsource this sort of thing ten years ago when Proton was a smaller company. That’s no longer the case.

They could engage a small number of community leaders to assist with moderation if needed. People are happy to help. But I think the continued insistence that they need to use Reddit, UserVoice, X, etc flies in the face of the community’s desire for privacy friendly alternatives. Why should I sacrifice my privacy with these platforms just so I can stay up to date on Proton news or chat with the community?

Discourse is open source and can be used as replacement for this forum. It will be definitely nice

Reddit?

When creating a feedback post, Proton allows you leave the name blank, but they require an email address. Very strange for a privacy email provider.

This "forum" prompts for "dreams" but not really "issues/problems". Please discuss and fix the problems too.

Please see "The Intercept" forums and adopt anonymous forum discussion.

Please streamline the format of this "forum" (from blocky to outline threading) to facilitate community discussion.