Bubble Idea Board? Any updates?

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Was working on a project today and decided that there were a few items I would love to see added to the editor and headed to the Idea Board to jot them down.

But I stopped myself. What is the point. It doesn’t appear anyone is listening to this this idea board. We are halfway through 2026 and the top upvoted idea is from 2020 with 1036 upvotes asking for a PDF generator Bubble-native PDF generation. Something that the bubble team could build fairly easily if they put the time into it. The bubble native calendar plugin hasn’t been touched in years! How can that compete with the open source git repos that are out there now being constantly improved by users.

The more I go through the idea board the more I wonder, what is the actual point of this. I understand some of these ideas might be harder than others such as an “Offline Editor Mode” but something like Ability to bulk upload option sets (as csv) posted October 2020. Why has this not been addressed?

If an idea that seems pretty straightforward can be upvoted by 241 people over the past 6 years and not be implemented. Why even create a new post here?

It feels like the bubble community has no voice and we are wondering why people are migrating off to use other tools. I would love some response from the bubble team as to if we are even being heard.

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Actually, most of the team are working on AI and Mobile (and editor new UI). They listen… sometimes… when they work on a specific thing.

Also, they may not consider the PDF as a priority because there’s already a lot of plugins or options to generate PDF.

But I totally agree they should put more team on quality of life improvment and ideaboard stuff. Before, 1 or 2 time a year, we got “Boost” days but I didn’t see one since 1 or 2 years now. This is sad because this was one moment where they work on some ideaboard stuff (simple, but CSV option set upload could be part of that).

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The PDF one was an example since it was the #1 most upvoted post on the idea board. Yes you are correct there are many PDF generating plugins out there (Free & Paid), however the Bubble Official plugins has access to features that external plugin developers do not have.

It’s strange to me that based on their own idea board system, this is the most requested feature, and regardless of how many PDF plugins exist on the marketplace, why wouldn’t they build one themselves?

Would it anger the plugin developers of the top PDF plugins?

Do they want to avoid having to maintain a suite of plugins in perpetuity, as their lack of support for the core Bubble Official plugins looks to show?

No clue, but what I do know is there are definitely some posts out of the 2,120 they could work on…

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This argument is flawed, a production grade app shouldnt use any Bubble built client side plugins, I feel like native elements too is risky for that case, for example I don’t use Bubble maps element, picture, video uploader, link element. Maps load unnesecarry resources, slows load, bubble client side plugins load the DOM above them even they are not used, links are irreleevant & picture uploader I don’t know there is simply no use case for such thing, loads to the files immediately, burns WU, doesnt compress.

For the “they don’t listen” part, 100% agree, I feel it all the way and I don’t know how many times stopped writing a feedback mid sentence.

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Yeah but thats the point. The fact that you choose not to use their out of the box elements is telling in itself. Why does one need to avoid a file upload element, choose to pay for an outside source or learn and build their own uploader, just to upload a file in your case.

That is not something for the average or new bubble user.

Not every bubble client is looking for or willing to pay for production grade bubble apps. Often times they want to test an idea or produce an MVP. Having quality bubble plugins/elements is important for that.

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The things I did with file uploader, 83% of builders wouldn’t be able to do that. I think the way for Bubble is for this case is to try to remove any downsides using any plugins. So, performance is the primary one, they just need to introduce lazy load stuff for this on plugins, or generally improve performance like SSR.

Anyways, wasted 5 mins, now my feedback goes to oblivion.

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It’s really a shame. I love bubble.io and have been preaching and building in it for years. Attended both BubbleCon’s in NYC. I can only thank Bubble for the success I have been able to have in that time.

Thats probably why I am so passionate about this topic and why it saddens me when our voices don’t seem to be heard.

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I think one possible improvement for the Bubble Idea Board would be to make it much more transparent and structured.

Right now, ideas seem to sit there for years without users knowing whether Bubble is seriously considering them, ignoring them, or expecting the plugin ecosystem to solve them. That creates frustration.

A better system could separate ideas into clear categories, for example:

1. High-priority ideas Bubble is actively evaluating
These would be features that Bubble believes are important to the core platform and may eventually become native.

2. Useful ideas, but not currently a Bubble priority
These could remain visible, but Bubble could clearly indicate that they are not planned in the short term.

3. Ideas Bubble does not plan to build natively
This is where Bubble could still be very helpful. Instead of leaving the idea abandoned, Bubble could add a checkmark or official note saying: “This is not currently planned as a native feature, but here are recommended solutions.”

For example, in the case of native PDF generation, if Bubble does not plan to build this soon, the Idea Board could point users toward 2 or 3 trusted plugin options or recommended workflows. Yes, that gives visibility to plugin creators, but it also shows that Bubble is listening and trying to guide users toward real solutions.

The same logic could apply to other requests. If there is already a strong plugin, an open-source solution, an API workaround, or a recommended Bubble-native method, Bubble could simply acknowledge it and point people in the right direction.

To me, the issue is not only that certain features are missing. The bigger issue is the silence. When users vote for something for years and nothing happens, it creates the impression that the Idea Board does not matter.

If Bubble believes there is a strong strategic reason to build something natively, then the team could explain why it matters and what would make the native Bubble version exceptional. If Bubble does not intend to build it, then say so and help the community find the best alternative.

That would make the Idea Board feel alive again. It would become less of a graveyard of old requests and more of a real product feedback system: transparent, useful, and connected to actual solutions.

Bubble already benefits from a large plugin ecosystem, and even Bubble’s own site highlights thousands of plugins built with Bubble, so using that ecosystem more intelligently inside the Idea Board would make a lot of sense. :flexed_biceps:

@fede.bubble

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Well said John! I couldn’t agree more!

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That would be very bad for Bubble, there are people that still expect Europe servers, team mentioned it in the previous Bubblecon. For the SSR issue it is asked 5 years ago, they said they are doing it but first they will do the typification of the editor, and most recently Emmanuel said they are considering it as a concept, but prior to that AMA he disregarded the performance issue.

Yes they can put all the forum info, sort it categorize it compile it whatever, the problem is not they aren’t hearing the feedback.

There is no simple solution to “Bubble ignores our feedback” and I think the problem is deeper than that.

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Unfortunately there isn’t a simple answer I can give that will satisfy everyone. The team is shipping features and updates every month, but it is also true a lot of long-standing asks from the ideaboard are still pending.

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I don’t think ideas are of equal quality and you can’t listen to every idea.

A good idea has the following characteristics:

  1. improves the company’s (Bubble’s) bottom line (virality/PLG, reduction of churn, revenue)
  2. is feasible (doesn’t take too many technical resources)
  3. enables/unlocks additional revenue from YOUR users
  4. isn’t redundant or won’t be made redundant by native features
  5. doesn’t have an easy workaround using native Bubble + very light code

Just because an idea is popular doesn’t mean it meets these criteria. For example the “pdf creator” fails on everything but #2 (and arguably fails #2 if you consider the cost of maintaining it). You can easily just create a new page or view in a “templated” or “pdf-like” viewer with everything stripped out but the essential data, formatted in a way that suits a pdf. Then users just use the native browser or OS to print to pdf. No point investing in something like that.

I recently proposed secure file sharing to LLMs or other 3rd party services. This is one of the most common uses cases for web apps, especially AI apps. You can build things that users will pay for using this feature, and attempting to do it yourself can lead to disastrous security consequences due to the all-or-nothing scoping of API tokens. Now I saw that Bubble is releasing it:

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I don’t expect people to audit their own ideas before submitting to the idea board, so in practice it will contain a lot of slop. This is not a technology or platform or feature problem. It is a “lack of creativity” and “selfishness” problem. Your best bet will be to make an impassioned and well-constructed argument while keeping Bubble’s business interests in mind. In the same way that you need to be empathetic towards your users’ needs, you need to do the same with your supplier (in this case Bubble). If an idea is a win-win, they’ll more than likely give it consideration. I believe @josh and @emmanuel are always open to ideas as long as you put in the work to identify the ones that meet those 5 criteria.

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How do you feel about the most impactful update was adding a spin to a button is the last months? Look in the ideaboard, there is no mention to AI. Users want simples things.

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and That button update its not what you probably think, no to very few use cases

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My point is that the simple stuff are making a huge difference for us developing in Bubble, like “Disable Action”, new API backend section, Style layout, change log in branch… These kind of stuff are great!