Feature Requests
Parse HTML in summaries
Example: Display > instead of >
Tag list
Sort results by most recent, most votes, most relevant.
List of most recent posts globally. When a developer wants to kill some time, it would be nice to see what people are asking. Similar features exist on StackOverflow and HackerNews.
Ability to see all of your responses. We can currently see a count, but not the actual posts. It would be nice to know if someone answered a followup.
Ability to rename profile.
Signatures
Polls
Users need to be able to criticize or vent about Apple or Apple products without the fear of getting their developer accounts banned. If Apple can clarify that what developers say on the forums will not negatively effect their apps or company's apps, it will go a long way towards moving the conversation from independent forums/SO/slacks and back to the official forums.
Year-round Apple Engineer engagement. The forums will die/lose respect if we only get serious engagement a few weeks in June.