I honestly wasn't expecting the touchscreen analog stick to get any votes, and yet one of the first two votes was for that one.

Now why the hell did someone actually vote for the trackpoint nub? I definitely wasn't expecting that, and I only put it in because the New 3DS had one; we don't consider it anything close to a good control method for video games.

@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

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

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

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

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@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)

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

thanks a lot @monorail!

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@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 Ah, you're right, the word wrap on the long one doesn't work. I can't see how it appears to someone who hasn't voted, though.

@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

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