I’d like cross platform polling. I know Piefed has polls, but if it doesn’t carry over to people not on Piefed, it’s not so useful.
I use comment upvote counts to run my annual community polls for people to choose A/B, but I wonder how much influence it bias it has on people when they can see totals before voting.
I’ve been unsure if redirecting people away from their instance’s page or app would be a friction point for people. Fediverse people can feel a lot more “particular” about any number of things, and I use our annual poll series somewhat as a recruiting drive to grow the community, so I want it to be as smooth as possible for anyone coming in for the first time.
I’ll check out the sites you provided. I’ve looked at a few before, and while I think they’re pretty painless, I’d want to get some community feedback, though again, it’s new users and lurkers I’m trying to capture, so I may still not get feedback from the people I’m actually invested in getting participation from.
It’s also about 30 polls I run in a 2 week span (I’m running a bracket tournament popularity contest) that’s still 30 extra things I’d have to do as well.
Having it be a native feature would negate all those points, especially for things that are out of my hands.
I’d like cross platform polling. I know Piefed has polls, but if it doesn’t carry over to people not on Piefed, it’s not so useful.
I use comment upvote counts to run my annual community polls for people to choose A/B, but I wonder how much influence it bias it has on people when they can see totals before voting.
You can use an offsite polling site and link to that. There are a number of “run a poll” websites out there.
EDIT: e.g.
https://www.poll-maker.com/
https://strawpoll.com/create/
https://www.easypolls.net/
I’ve been unsure if redirecting people away from their instance’s page or app would be a friction point for people. Fediverse people can feel a lot more “particular” about any number of things, and I use our annual poll series somewhat as a recruiting drive to grow the community, so I want it to be as smooth as possible for anyone coming in for the first time.
I’ll check out the sites you provided. I’ve looked at a few before, and while I think they’re pretty painless, I’d want to get some community feedback, though again, it’s new users and lurkers I’m trying to capture, so I may still not get feedback from the people I’m actually invested in getting participation from.
It’s also about 30 polls I run in a 2 week span (I’m running a bracket tournament popularity contest) that’s still 30 extra things I’d have to do as well.
Having it be a native feature would negate all those points, especially for things that are out of my hands.