Feedback portal

A public board where your users post ideas, vote on each other's, and follow what you're building.

The portal is the public, votable side of Annot8 — the thing your users see when you want them to shape the roadmap rather than report a bug. It lives at https://annot8.app/p/<slug> and needs no account to browse, post, vote, or comment.

Set it up in Project → Feedback → Portal. It's a Pro feature.

Boards

A portal contains one or more boards. Creating a portal seeds a default Feature requests board; add more when you want to keep categories apart — Feature requests, Bugs, Integrations, API.

Each board has a name, a slug, an optional description, an order, and a visibility flag. A board that isn't public is hidden from the portal but still visible to your team in the dashboard, which is a useful staging area.

Posts

A post has a title, details, an author name (and optionally an email), a vote count, and a status.

Status	Says to your users
`open`	Received, not yet assessed
`under_review`	We're looking at it
`planned`	We're going to do it
`in_progress`	Being built
`complete`	Shipped
`closed`	Not going ahead

Pin a post to keep it at the top of its board — useful for a "read this first" or a shipping announcement.

Votes

One vote per person per post, tracked by a per-visitor key so a signed-out user can still vote without duplicating. Votes are the ranking signal on a board and the honest answer to "how many people actually want this?"

Comments and official replies

Anyone can comment on a post. Replies from your team are marked official, so users can tell a maintainer's answer from another user's opinion at a glance.

Merging duplicates

The same idea arrives worded five different ways. Merge the duplicates from the dashboard — votes and comments consolidate onto the surviving post, so the merged result reflects everyone who asked.

Moderation

The portal is public, which means it needs a moderation path.

Any visitor can report a post or a comment.
Reports land in Project → Moderation, where your team reviews and decides.
The reporter gets a receipt link they can revisit for the outcome, and can appeal a decision.
Removed content is marked with a reason rather than being silently deleted.

See Security & trust for the whole flow.

Portal or feedback form?

Want	Use
Users to see and vote on each other's ideas	Portal
Private feedback only you see	A feedback form
Structured answers to specific questions	A questionnaire
Feedback pinned to a real page	The widget

A portal is a public commitment: people can see what you did and didn't build, and what everyone else asked for. That's the point, and it's also worth deciding deliberately before you publish the link.