About the launches… all polls get a “My Test Launch”, which is just for your own testing. Polls that were converted from the old system also have two others. The “Converted Results” are the legacy results from the old system, and “A Fresh Start” is a new launch to take ongoing votes in the new system. For more information about why the old results had to be separated, see the first two questions in our FAQ.

First, the new look looks fine. My only problem with it is that the webpages are not programmed to show visited links as a different color. As a result, looking at a poll directory I can’t tell which polls I’ve already visited and which ones are new or unvisited. My solution is to go into the browser settings and disable webpages from displaying their own colors (ie. only display browser default colors) so that visited links/polls show up in a different color. It’s a workable solution but sometimes a hassle to have to change back and forth, especially when looking at other websites at the same time.

Second, about launching polls. For a given poll that I made before the site changed layout, what is the difference between “My Test Launch”, “A Fresh Start”, and “New Launch” below the poll?

Thanks for your answers.

We separated the old and new results out of necessity, not because we thought it’d be cool or useful. For an explanation of why this was done, check out the first two FAQ questions. At least they’re first right now. (Why were my poll results reset / separated).

There did used to be a “view all messages” option. It would flatten all of the topics into a chronological view. It tended to confuse people, but we have had several requests to bring it back. It may be making a return.

Hey, how about putting links to the messages at the bottom of the results page and to the results and the messages at the bottom of the poll page.

Also, why not just combine “old” results with the “new” results? What is the point otherwise? Whether or not the results were from the old software makes no difference to someone wanting to see poll results.

Also, reading the messages seems a little more awkward than it used to be…I seem to remember that one could get all the messages and topics displayed at once to read through them.

-gary

We did change the order that the choices are shown in the results. It used to be sorted from most popular to least popular, as you said. Initially, that seemed the most logical choice. However, some poll creators complained about that, saying it made it difficult for them note trends when the choices kept jumping around every time they reloaded the page. So we decided to try it as they suggested — keeping the choices in the same order as they are presented when taking the poll.

Obviously, that choice isn’t pleasing everybody either, but no single choice will. Thanks for your comments, though. We’ll consider all of the feedback we get, and it’s possible we may switch back to sorting by popularity if it’s clear that most people prefer that method.

Gizensha: Search now has an option to sort by date! Check it out.

Thank you.
Wetfun

PS Will you please email why my polls do not come up is an search?