A missing feature here is sorting issues by public support. An example is FontAwesome, which explicitly asks users to leave a +1 comment on issues they support.

A missing feature here is sorting issues by public support. An example is FontAwesome, which explicitly asks users to leave a +1 comment on issues they support. You can then get a pretty good idea of the most desired features by sorting the issues by most commented. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#requesting-new-icons https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/master/CONT... https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acomments-desc https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues?q=is%3Ais... Would also be nice to see these reactions on the issue list so you can get a feel for the issues at a glance without digging deep into each one.