ps2026

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by ps2026 8mo ago
I see your point. My main goal with this was simplicity, not reductivism. I am not sure the average person wants to dive into the nuances of every poll just to participate (I do like it as an option though). I also don't want to exclud
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Hey absolutely! I checked out your website and looks great, I guess our ideas are validating each other! I would definitely be interested in learning more about your choices and implementation on demographics/verification, as I started
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by ps2026 8mo ago
You're right on that. That is one reason I am avoiding scientific polling and calling it "public sentiment". The binary, with all its flaws, is dead simple. I see a statement, do I agree or disagree with that statement. If I
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by ps2026 8mo ago
He, you made the news! That is pretty awesome. Well done!
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by ps2026 8mo ago
I'm based in the US and trying my best. I'll have some more broad polls at some point. At one question per day, I'll have a hard time getting everything and everyone included. A lot of the statements are "general" s
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Hey, you are not wrong. That is technically true. So the way I format the questions are always a statement (not a question) otherwise the response is really Yes/No more so than Agree/Disagree. I prefer agree/disagree because
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Dang, perfect timing, ran into an issue with GitHub actions being down. Then the container timed out in Azure after manual publish. Should be back up now.
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Update: The HN traffic exposed a bug I hadn't caught... static caching of user-specific data in Blazor Server was causing session bleed under load. One comment got attributed to the wrong user. I am pushing a fix now, so the site will
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by ps2026 8mo ago
I should probably add that. I do plan to add some more international statements, but yeah, right now it is very U.S.-centric.
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful ideas! You make some great points and laid out a few good plans honestly. I do have an "account" feature right now, where you just enter your email to login. It is passwordless. Logged in accounts can onl
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by ps2026 8mo ago
I guess I will have to dive into this a bit more. I don't want to make false claims on the site. From the research I did before choosing Plausible, they do not collect any user data. They collect statistics of things that happened, but
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Hey thanks for the recommendation. That makes sense. Layered rate limiting at both /64 and /48 with different thresholds. Appreciate the explanation, and I'll be adding this to the list! This is my first time dealing with a p
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by ps2026 8mo ago
I am not really sure honestly. I thought of the idea a couple years ago and thought it was interesting. I follow politics and current events, but never really participated in online discussions of it. I have a background in data analytics a
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Actually no, I'm rate limiting per individual IP address right now. Good catch... I should probably normalize IPv6 to /64. I was originally thinking about not blocking universities or large groups that share IPs, but I guess that
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Haha so like "guess" which way you think public sentiment leans before you submit your vote? Were you thinking like "what percent agreed" or something? You type 55% then it shows you actually 22% agree sort of deal? That
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by ps2026 8mo ago
That would actually be really interesting since most of my users so far are from Reddit and Bluesky. Seeing how that breaks down would be telling of how sites primary users feel. The only issue is, while Plausible analytics that I am using
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by ps2026 8mo ago
Thanks for checking it out! Most of my voters have come from Reddit and Bluesky so far, which is primarily where the left leaning is coming from. My X account was unfortunately suspended lol. I put an appeal in, but was originally flagged I
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by ps2026 8mo ago
The Plausible does count raw statistics without "tracking" specific users. That is just used for general website analytics. The first-party functional cookie that I am using (very similar to the auth login cookie) is used to preve
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by ps2026 8mo ago
So the site does use Plausable analytics. I chose that one because it does not use cookies, does not identify the user in any way, and does not follow you across the internet. It counts raw aggregate statistics and is compliant with GDPR wi
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by ps2026 8mo ago
That is a great idea! So I actually have two "meta" tags that will be used as I get going more. One is "revisited". This one will tag statements that have been asked before and I'll then add in more analytics to see
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