It’s not impossible – you just need to create it using a keyboard and not by talking to the computer. 😉

Impossible materials – such as transparent aluminium (from Star Trek)?

The “front end” is custom stuff Tyler wrote, but when you click through a bug, it’ll rapidly turn into Jira.

That’s Jira? I use Jira a lot, I just have never seen it look like that.

Jira’s not quite as “very best of 1997 internet tech” as Mantis was, but you can always disable CSS. 😉 Experiment with the various queries and list views – I yelled at Chris for a while when he brought Jira in, but I’ve found that pretty much every power user feature I want is actually in there somewhere.

I don’t think vote up/down is terribly useful; most issues are limited by the architectural issues, dependencies on X-Plane, and cost of engineering. Having more users go “but I -really really- want this” doesn’t change the equation that much. We also already here a lot of the same requests over and over again.

Is there any way the new … thing … can be less ‘blog’ looking, and more ‘list’ looking? Another theme or something?

Also, do you think a vote up/down thing be of any value?

This is definitely the wrong place to ask for some feature. You need to visit the site Ben is talking about to do that.

Please hear me.
Thank you.

Someday we will have better materials! But they will __NEVER__ be like FSX! This is because FS X’s material model allows for physically impossible materials; we will use a model that is physically based.