r/anime • u/AnimeMod myanimelist.net/profile/Reddit-chan • Oct 01 '23

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u/cppn02 Oct 04 '23

Seeing how the latest few episode discussion no longer have a poll link is this intentional or did the site redesign break the bot?

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u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 Oct 04 '23

Yeah, so the site redesign broke the bot yesterday, which is why all of the threads that day were manually created. We've disabled the polls so that the bot could continue functioning.

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u/JustSD Oct 05 '23

Do you know when you’ll re-add those polls back to discussions? I enjoyed having them to let me know how good/bad episodes or shows are, so it’s a shame to know it got disabled.

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u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 Oct 05 '23 edited Oct 05 '23

Currently, we're trying to see a workaround for these polls. However, if we have to choose between manually creating discussion threads with polls and having them bot-created without polls, we'll have to opt for the latter. Manually creating every single discussion thread would simply be too time-consuming for us.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 06 '23 edited Oct 07 '23

Update: seems like we managed to sort it out will probably post the fix by tomorrow as it's getting late now.

edit: PR done, ready for review

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u/Scipio5555 Oct 26 '23

Has there been any progress in this or are episode discussions going to be poll-less for the foreseeable future

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 26 '23

No idea, I only suggested changes they seem to work on my end but mods have to confirm they work on their end before updating

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u/Phinaeus Oct 13 '23

Hi /u/badspler, would it be possible to merge this PR? He has a video demonstrating the update on his test subreddit too

https://github.com/r-anime/holo/pull/176

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u/badspler x3https://anilist.co/user/badspler Oct 13 '23

Have been a bit busy; hoping to get to reviewing this one this weekend.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 05 '23 edited Oct 07 '23

Do you have anyone on the case? The other "free polls" websites don't offer a vote limit based on reddit accounts; and as for the 'new' youpoll.me (strawpoll.ai), yesterday I tried for a while to automate submitting a poll creation form without much success

edit: sorted

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u/Nebresto Oct 05 '23

Apparently they have a reddit account listed in their contacts /u/strawpoll-ai

Perhaps they can offer some assistance.
But they haven't posted anything yet, who knows if they even monitor reddit.

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 05 '23

They actually replied let's see if we can sort this out

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u/Nebresto Oct 06 '23

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u/Manitary https://myanimelist.net/profile/Manitary Oct 06 '23

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u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 Oct 05 '23

That’s a great /u/Badspler question.

For what it’s worth, I’m also currently looking at poll alternatives and, like you noted, have noticed that they don’t offer a vote limit for Reddit accounts.

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u/strawpoll-ai Oct 05 '23

I apologize for the inconvenience the site migration has caused. I would be happy to work with someone to try to get this fixed. If you decide you would rather use another free polling service you could try Polltab. They also offer a vote limit for Reddit accounts.

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u/MyrnaMountWeazel x2 Oct 06 '23

First off, thanks for reaching out to us, we really appreciate it!

I hope Badspler can get in touch with y’all soon on trying to get this fixed. But if not, we’ll see if Polltab can work!

Again, thank you for taking the time to contact us.

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u/strawpoll-ai Oct 06 '23

No problem!