Should just make a subforum for this. No one knows if it's really accepted or not. Dev doesn't have to search thru multiple pages of accepted if he finds time
You can filter posts by tags so I'm not really sure that devs have to search though accepted feedback, but your other point still stands
The developer to-do-list is not 1:1 what you see in the accepted subforum. We use external apps and try to prepare the ideas for our developers as best as we can. The awaiting developer input prefix is for ideas we generally would like to add but we are not that sure yet on how to. There can be various reasons for that. They can be as simple as our developers saying something like „We could try xyz but I can only tell once I started programming.“. This stuff is for the most part behind those ideas where the devs already have a more polished idea of implementation labeled as „for implementation“. In development some stuff is unforeseen and things can turn out different than planned. We do our best to label feedbacks correctly but in my case for example errors can happen because I don’t have an nearly as good understanding as our developer about these things. We‘re trying to be more transparent by shifting the feedbacks to the accepted subforum earlier than before and assigning one of the two prefixes mentioned. We try to prepare feedbacks and discussions and set up votes for the rest of staff including the developers so they can focus on their main tasks - the development itself. We are still trying to catch up on a big backlog of unanswered feedbacks and I really wouldn’t like to go back to that approach because we’d have to wait for them all to be reviewed by our developers first. In my opinion it takes away too much of their time. Feel free to provide additional feedback if you think what I described doesn’t help.
It's for the dev to review and make a comment when he has time later on in the future, whether tomorrow or a year down the line. If he says it's possible, you can change to "For implementation" (or not) and add to Accepted subforum. Otherwise, you can close thread and moved to Closed subforum. Most of the "Awaiting Developer Input" threads being in Accepted is mute since nobody on Staff knows if it can be done until the Dev has the time to even review, possibly test it out, and then thinks it's within resources. Essentially they're on-hold. Only threads that's 100% confirmed but it's just getting around to it by the Dev after major projects are finished should stay in Accepted (i.e. MapleRoyals Library).
I get your point, but is it really such a big difference if „awaiting developer input“ is a prefix or a subforum? I feel like there is better stuff to discuss.
For organization's sake, yes. You don't need to remove the prefix. Just add a subforum to add those threads to. By all means... some people are waiting here aren't they? Not sure what you're implying.
