Polls wishlist

[HarHarLinks]

Your use case

I couldn't find an issue tracking particular polls (#6255) feature requests but had a couple suggestions, so I made one:

• emoji support in the input fields, at least the suggestions when starting to type :
• auto focus question field when creating a new poll Autofocus "question" field when creating a poll element-web#20997
• tab to skip to next option field [Labs / Polls] Select next Option when pressing "Tab" button instead of selecting "Remove" button element-web#19824
• ability to pin, in particular pinning it to the top like a pinned widget
• reply/thread starting with a poll
• hide results before voting
• don't hide results before voting
• ability to end poll
• option to (not) hide results until ended
• more compact layout with "Use a more compact 'Modern' layout"
• multiple choice and other voting systems (Instant-runoff, STAR, Condorcet) see also Polls: option to enable multi-select #2295
• images etc as options Consider supporting images, etc as answers to a poll element-web#20829 (and question?)
• redact your own vote Un-vote on polls #695
• non-anonymous polls (show who voted which option)
• anonymous polls Push rules settings element-web#641
• sort results by vote count
• allow users to add new options

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

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[MaxOstrowski]

Would it also be possible to support other voting systems, like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

[penyuan]

Thank you for opening this issue. The current vote-for-only-one choice system is not expressive nor inclusive of diverse opinions, and causes many problems.

• multiple choice and other voting systems (Instant-runoff, STAR, Condorcet)

Here is documentation on how STAR voting works, and why it is superior. It would be huge if Element's polling function could be flexible to allow other voting systems like STAR.

It should be noted that some of these replacement voting methods requires multiple rounds of tabulation, so the code should be written to allow that as well.

What are the relevant sections of the current codebase that deals with polling? How big of a modification needs to be made to allow other voting methods?

[sjthiessen]

Hey there! I'd like to add the following to this list

• add support for non-anonymous polls

[xPMo]

Definitely interested in multi-select, but I'd also suggest

• sorting options by vote count
• add options to poll (although this is still rife for abuse)

[penyuan]

Liking these suggestions. If the official developers don't prioritise these features, how hard would it be for external contributors to add them???

[HarHarLinks]

Some are easy, like "don't hide results before voting".
Some are technically easy, but need design input, like "more compact layout" or perhaps "emoji input".
More might need spec modifications or at least custom (extensible) events, like "images as question/answers".

[xPMo]

We've also noticed that some clients limit the number of options visible to 20, while others do not.

[keunes]

@HarHarLinks, thanks for making this overview and sorry to bother you. I just created #2295.

It might cover (part of) this point:

multiple choice and other voting systems (Instant-runoff, STAR, Condorcet)

[timvahlbrock]

How is the general attitude towards pull requests implementing any of the features? @nitn3lav offered to implement multiple choice polls for iOS and Android, but didn't get any response wether this would be reviewed for almost two weeks now. I would be willing to implement the ability to show the voters of each option on web and iOS a shot, but would also like to know beforehand if any pull requests in that direction would currently be regarded at all.

[timvahlbrock]

A little disappointed that there is no response, gave the implementation for web a shot anyway in element-hq/element-web#28305