I already posted so many ideas on the forum (or at least that is how the past feels in my memory), kinda a lot of work to try to find all the threads and evaluate each idea on whether it goes over the "just a toy" threshold...

Web forums isn't really the best format for such things to start with; i've head a good experience using Jira, it worked well for classifying and organizing issues and ideas as well as for discussing them (though perhaps it still won't help ideas spread when there are lots of them flying around, people still gotta go around telling others to go read the stuff they want more people to be aware off), i know Jira isn't open and stuff, but i haven't really dealt much with any competitors and alternatives, the few i did use was just very rarelly, they felt clumsier and less streamlined, but it could be just lack of practice on my side (and perhaps on the operators too)