Hey team, Happy Hump Day! 

I just recently penned a blog entry on our new reporting and metrics added into 4.6.8 (out now btw 🎉). It got me thinking about another means to collect data directly from your members is our polls feature!

I think the poll system in topics is an underrated gem of our platform.

It's engaging, easy to participate with and provides real results. You can even share the poll for others to partake in (and its results) across any page of your community using the poll block inside the Block Manager. It's a pretty nifty feature we don't talk about enough! 

Would love for you to participate in this poll and also hear from you!

As always, here's a roundup of updates/fixes our devs accomplished in the last week. Mad props to them!

- Changed value for prune_member_history setting from null to an empty string for Cloud.
- Fixed a broken getLastComment link in the forumRow template.
- Fixed an issue where the topic summary may only show 3 top posts instead of 4 if the topic contains many guest posts.
- Added reputation titles & icons back to the Reputation Activity page in user profiles.
 - Changed value for prune_member_history setting from null to an empty string for Cloud.
- Improved the club landing page for closed clubs to return an error with further information.
- Fixed the badges for 'seven consecutive days' and 'Five Hundred Items'.
- Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to delete the Apple startup icon.
- Fixed an issue where email exceptions did not show the correct message in debug mode.
- Optimized deletions from Redis after processing content views.
- Fixed an issue where text direction was not set correctly in some emails.
- Fixed an issue where creating an OAuth2 login method would result in an array with IN_DEV. 
- Fixed an error shown if a shipping order is deleted for a no longer existing invoice.
- Fixed an issue where member group formatting may break the who's online and active user widgets.
- Removed no longer used sitemapLinks functions.
- Fixed unreliable sorting on the admin control panel tasks table.
- Added some missing rel=nofollow attributes on add new content links.
- Fixed an issue where no default badge was shown in the admin control panel streams list.
- Added a missing search keyword for block caching.
- Fixed an issue where editing anonymous items could change the author.
- Fixed a broken link when configuring VigLink.
- Fixed some missing email template titles.
- Fixed the duplicate rel attribute in the facebook share link.
- Fixed a missing search keyword for block caching.
- Fixed some missing rel=nofollow attributes on add new content links.
- Fixed a niche issue with the Marketplace interface showing an entity instead of dollar sign in some browsers.
- Removed no longer used sitemapLinks functions.
- Fixed an issue where pagination links could redirect to the wrong location when using Blog categories.
- Fixed the design on the Zapier Integration page and added the clipboard copy button for easier data copying.

Do you use polls in your own community? Do you have any ideas that could benefit this feature? Any feedback/input would be greatly appreciated.

• One frequent complaint that I see is that every question is mandatory, which forces members to add a "not applicable" option when they have multiple questions.
• The poll title is a waste of time, given that there's already a topic title and poll question title
• I think it would be really neat if polls were attached to posts rather than to topics - that would force people to actually read the first post before answering the poll, and would allow for people to add polls in replies (and other places such as status updates) too

21 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

Any feedback/input would be greatly appreciated.

I assume the first issue is a bug.

Different options, such as sliders, to rate 1-10. I have had an app written for my site to add ratings to certain topics which include sliders but its not perfect.

https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/topic/127178-match-ratings-leeds-1-1-leicester-city-vote-now/

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by marklcfc

Hello,

A better integration and visibility of the surveys would be great indeed!

Why not make page more powerful and allow the creation of a multi-survey system like Google form via a database with several types of form fields? (Checkbox, free room, value, ect...) to collect the answers in the back with the possibility to integrate them in the topics via a javascript call? 

During our previous polls for the creation of a card game via the association, we had to redirect our community to vote via google form, which is a pity, since our Facebook/discord users are not the same, some would have certainly taken advantage of it to finally register 🙂
Kims
 

3 minutes ago, Sonya* said:

Or is it because this poll has not been seen/found by the most users in the community?

That’s exactly what I said in my first post. A poll wall (a page to display all polls) would make a difference here.

Hi @Jordan Miller, did this feedback help towards anything coming soon for polls at all?