I was thinking more of a public place where others can see it.
For instance, I would ask for a feature that downvoting shall require a mandatory comment or similar improvements to discourage anonymous drive-by-downvoting which gives you no info as to what's objectionable/irrelevant in your comment. From experience, 2/3 of the downvotes appear to be subjective likes/unlikes leading to anonymous downvotes. In fact, I never downvote anything, so I'd be fine if the downvote button was replaced with the FLAG link. But there are some who see use in the downvote function, so that's to be considered as well.
FWIW, here's a fun solicitation from pg from nearly 10 years ago: "Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
There are more than 1,700 comments (which would be a ton of comments on any thread today)...so I only skimmed through, but I think I saw way more suggestions that sound good that, for whatever reason, aren't implemented today.
Would you consider setting up an issues page here? It might be good to have some public location where people could post requests/bugs and communicate with the developers.
