@Rosemary maybe people didn't quite get that you were aksing specifically for video games? it's great on a computer

@noiob Hmm, that's true. Let me redraft it. Because yes, the trackpoint nub works great on computers, and I'd certainly hate to use any of the other options for a computer.

@Rosemary oh, also a thing that can be used to control games: trackpads, like on the Steam Controller

@Rosemary and motion controls

@noiob I can only make four poll options! Though you could probably change that if you wanted to.

@Rosemary I guess I could 😅 I'll check if it's easy

@noiob That wasn't really a request, by the way. It'd be nice if you could, but I don't have any pressing need for it. What would be more helpful would be the ability to put more characters into poll options! I know I've seen other instances do that.

@noiob @Rosemary on glitch-soc it's literally an environment variable

@monorail @Rosemary cool! are those documented anywhere?

@noiob @Rosemary not afaik, i usually find out about them by going it to change it manually and discovering that it checks an environment variable

@monorail @noiob Documentation is the most overlooked and yet important aspect of any project.

@noiob @Rosemary oh shit i was wrong, it's not an environment variable, it's just a constant in app/validators/poll_validator.rb

@monorail @Rosemary does ten options and 50 chars (instead of 25) sound good?

@noiob @monorail I don't know! Probably fine, though I don't have that good a grasp of just how long 50 characters is.

"Let's see, it's enough to type this sentence in."

That seems like a good length--the sentence above, counting the quotes on either side of it, is exactly 50 characters; I used it to get an idea of how long that is. I can see cases where that wouldn't be enough, but it's adequate for most things.

@Rosemary well, you'll still have a ton of space in the toot text (more if you add a CW)

@noiob Good point.

@Rosemary done! well, that was really fast and painless :D

thanks a lot @monorail!

@noiob @Rosemary no worries!

@noiob @monorail

@noiob @monorail Seems like it works. It's nice when things are easy!

@Rosemary @monorail argh, the CSS doesn't adapt to longer option names

@noiob @monorail It occurs to me that having all these extra options lets me bodge in another thing I would like to see in the poll system, which would probably be quite difficult to modify in on the backend: I can now add an extra option for "No preference, but I want to see the results so far"

@Rosemary yeah, that would need to be supported by the frontends I think

@noiob @Rosemary upstream it's probably just a constant in the poll validator