A teaser?

julian

Wow, all that awesome hard work @mr_waffle!

I wanted to tackle this a long time ago, but I wanted to go about it a different way, and use a polling API instead. It would've ended up being less work in the end, except I couldn't find a good enough polling API service!

Schamper

@julian said:

Wow, all that awesome hard work @mr_waffle!

I wanted to tackle this a long time ago, but I wanted to go about it a different way, and use a polling API instead. It would've ended up being less work in the end, except I couldn't find a good enough polling API service!

Yeah I read that in another thread. Figured I'd be that guy and just create something myself

julian

Much appreciated of course

Schamper

@julian ofcourse... Hopefully with 0.4 there'll be some new hooks and stuff that will make this a lot easier to maintain. Will require some brainstorming to come up with those

<baris>

Maybe markdown can be extended for polls like the checkboxes in github. So creating a poll might be just typing out the below

[] option 1
[] option 2
[] option 3

Obviously it will have to be parsed and rendered and clicks need to be registered. Thinking out loud.

Schamper

@baris That might've been better actually I'll think about everything and I'll see whatever I end up with using.

Chris

@Mr_Waffle I think giving the users the options of both a GUI or simple markdown would probably be the best. To us markdown is easy and makes a lot of sense but in general Markdown is still very new and most users have very little idea how to use it.

Trying to explain to the average forum user how to make a forum poll through markdown could be a nightmare and completely not worth it

trevor

@Mr_Waffle Poll? Definitely getting my vote.

Schamper

@Chris said:

@Mr_Waffle I think giving the users the options of both a GUI or simple markdown would probably be the best. To us markdown is easy and makes a lot of sense but in general Markdown is still very new and most users have very little idea how to use it.

Trying to explain to the average forum user how to make a forum poll through markdown could be a nightmare and completely not worth it

Ye my idea would be to let the GUI insert the correct markdown.

San1ty

Awesome work @mr_waffle!

I do wonder what happens to a poll if the original topic is deleted?
Does everything get cleaned up correctly, or are you going to end up with ghost polls?

Schamper

@San1ty Will keep that in mind.

finid

@San1ty

But that would not be an issue if polls are always original topics, rather than being also included in replies (posts). The problem, is how do you limit its use to OP only?

San1ty

@planner Agreed polls should always be an OP.

Roger

@San1ty Options options options, I for one would also like to allow my users to post polls depending on what category they're in. I'm unsure on how extensible the permissions system in NodeBB is, might be worth making one of the most advanced ones in existence because I've always felt they're limited.

Schamper

Guys, guys, I'll finish a barebone version of polls soon, then you can all add your features and create a pull request!

julian

#famouspeopleproblems

psychobunny

roooooofl

yeah this reminds me of my static page plugin. "A sample plugin to show how to build a static page"

next think you know I'm getting requests to make it able to put google adwords on the sidebar etc

faizanzahid

@schamper I love you schamper for your awesome work on all the plugins.