Hi all,

I am planning the next version of oTree. Would be interested to hear people's feature requests, ideas, or general topics about use cases that we should enable better.

Thank you,
Chris

It would be nice if dependencies such as starlette could be upgraded to the latest version so that this package is usable in combination with other python libraries. In my case I would like to install a package that requires fastapi. The version of starlette that is currently in the requirements of otree is 0.14.1 which is almost 5 years old. 

Further, there seem to be some security vulnerabilities with versions older than 0.40.0 of starlette: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47874

Hi Chris

I had a project where I could have used a live_method on a WaitPage, which is not yet supported. 
It would be nice if that could be added.

Also: +1 to the dependencies upgrade! 
(In my case the dependencies with alter_ego cause conflicts)

Best,
Daniel

Thank you for your continued efforts! Here are some feature requests that have been made several times already:

It would be nice if features such as the focus detection on wait pages that wait for participants to group could be turned off. I.e., allow participants to be matched although they do not currently have the tab in focus. This could be an option in settings or in the group by arrival time method.

Server-side triggered live methods on schedules would be nice. I.e., send a message to the clients via websockets every x seconds. 

Have special pages for instructions that allow going back and forth between them.

Waitpages that can be left if waiting takes too long.

Allow custom views, routes, and websocket consumers to be defined.