Thanks for the great questions! I'll answer these in-line:
1) By adopting Commonwealth, how would this workflow change?
This workflow will only get easier. You will do all discussion and proposals in one forum. On the specific threads, you will see all discussions for the topic. Additionally, voting is only one additional click. While voting you can also check the governance activity (comments, votes, etc.) of those submitting, commenting, and voting on the proposal. In short, you go from 3 sites to one and have easy transparency and tracking along the way.
2) How exactly does this benefit users? Your first three major changes all seem like things we already have, and the "Key Feature Upgrades:" seem fairly vague. More details would be appreciated.
Ultimately, we make it really easy for anyone to participate in governance for any project. A couple clicks can get you to the governance forums and proposals for a range of projects. I've listed out our core functionality below, but are also a crypto-native tool with a team of 30 actively improving this every day. Discord and Discourse aren't even crypto tools and have made no indication at improving the functionality for crypto users.
Feature Overview
- For Alchemix Core:
- Four Tools in One: We are a crypto-native discourse, with an integration to Snapshot voting, staking dashboard, and more.
- Staking Dashboard: Along side governance and discussions, we can offer a full staking dashboard. And include chain notifications when you earn a reward / get slashed and more. See Example on Previous UI.
- Off-chain to on-chain governance integration: We have full on-chain governance support already for COMP, AAVE, & Substrate Governance. We're able to quickly turnaround (2 - 3 weeks) any customization necessary.
- Integrations with Existing Social Channels: We allow you to create webhooks across Telegram, Discord, Slack, and Element to automatically show new proposals and more.
- Full Community Analytics: New Address, Forum Posts, Visits, as well as % of Token Holder Participating
- For Alchemix Ecosystem Projects:
- Same "full stack" community experience: We can offer the same all-in-one experience of on-chain governance and more
- For token holders:
- In-App & Email Notifications: We give all users on-chain notifications in-app, through email, allow users to subscribe to watch interesting on-chain events such as votes and large trades.
- Profiles: Explore the voting history, discussion history and on chain activity for any Alchemix holder.
3) How would Commonwealth store/access/transmit data? If it is a middleman is it possible that it could corrupt/change data?
We are a blockchain project ourselves, built on the Edgeware blockchain. All activity is tracked on-chain preventing corruption.