I’d like to have polls implemented in-chat, without the need of using an external app. This would allow users to vote and follow the changes of other people’s votes more quickly. Polls are very widely used in work chats to take decisions and many people find it too slow if they have to load the ap…

[image] tmattei: Also, it would be handy if one could have more options (e.g., multi-choice vs. single choice, anonymous vote, hide results or even ‘quiz’ mode). I will probably will add the multi/single choice option as soon as I have some time to work on it. And probably later other feature…

Just for reference, polls is one of the use cases listed for Structured Email: [image] Structured Email: Use cases This document collects and discusses use cases for "structured email" [I-D.ietf-sml-structured-email-02]. Don’t think it actually addresses it i…

[image] tmattei: many people find it too slow if they have to load the app each time I agree overall that native built-in polls are better than a webxdc, but I think the “it is too slow” problem comes from the “FILL500” hack we added to block WebRTC which makes it a really annoying experience…

Hi adbenitez and thank you for answering. Fair enough, I totally understand the problem. Yes, too bad you had to introduce that progress bar, I honestly thought it was the time needed to load the app (even if it’s so small it wasn’t realistic tbh), I guess there was a good reason to do so. Now, i…

[image] tmattei: It would be very handy if it could show something more in the short text it outputs in the chat bubble–maybe a resume of the options with the votes for each option would be already enough. The thing is that text is very limited, only one line and it will be truncated when it …

Oh I see… Thank you if you can find some time to add more options, that would be great. Here are some suggestions, but please consider this as a brainstorming. Besides single/multi choice, It would be good to have non-anonymous polls (i.e. users can see who voted what) as a choice. “Hide results…

[image] DavidSM100: I will probably will add the multi/single choice option as soon as I have some time to work on it. And probably later other features. Maybe it would be sufficient to be able to display more text and BARs as info text in a Webxdc. That way still Webxdc developers can realiz…

[image] adbenitez: I agree overall that native built-in polls are better than a webxdc, but I think the “it is too slow” problem comes from the “FILL500” hack we added to block WebRTC which makes it a really annoying experience if every time you want to see the poll status you waste several seco…

Related: [image] Feature suggestion - view apps inline Mini Apps A use case for allowing to show webxdc of static HTML + CSS in the chat with JS disabled is to provide an alternative for space-efficient and accessible stickers, animations and lightweight intera…

To add to the “WebXDC is good enough for this” argument: @davidsm10 recently made the poll app close on Escape key press: feat: allow closing app using `Escape` · davidsm10/poll-webxdc@f3e542d · GitHub . Another nice thing would be displaying the “winner” inline, like this: [image]

'Inline' realtime polls

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ian August 13, 2026, 12:52pm 11

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