A way to crowdsource ideas, upvote ideas so the core maintainers know what's popular. A way to disqus the ideas. And then the maintainer(s) / core developers, listens to the discussions, and they make decisions, based on that.
However making democratic decisions, where everyone has one vote (?), sounds like long term disaster to me :- ) because a few people, the core developers who build 99% of the software, will (I think) have 100 x more insight, than members in general. ? then, equal voting power = could drive away the core contributors? if the community makes weird decisoins?
> consolidate the number of tools
Then possibly a project I'm doing could be of interest to you. It's called Talkyard and let's you do both blog comments (like Disqus) and question-answers and crowdsourcing ideas (like Loomio), and simple chat channels, in one tool. https://www.talkyard.io
You have a link to your project? Aha it's https://glitr.io about memes