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Here's what that looks like.

First screenshot is the current UI. Second screenshot is the experiment. In both cases the user hasn't voted on the poll yet.

Thoughts?

@pachli I think that the option with the switch to see the poll would be the best one. Seeing the results in advance if I want to vote seems somewhat wrong...

@kallekn Yeah. Looks like this at the moment, which feels a bit clunky. And on narrower devices the "Hide votes" / "Show votes" button wraps to two lines. For some languages it's probably not wide enough at all.

Two buttons stacked on top of each other isn't very aesthetically pleasing either. Maybe the "sensitive" eye-with-a-slash icon could be placed on the poll somewhere?

@kallekn Here's an experiment with that icon.

First screenshot is how the poll appears without interaction, second is if you tap the icon on the far right.

@pachli I preferred the button. It's clearer. If you use the icon, I think it should be next to the button.

@kallekn I wasn't a fan of how it potentially obscures part of the first option either.

Here's the latest iteration. It's a checkbox so the state is extremely clear (no "does the icon indicate the current state, or the state it will switch to?" uncertainty).

Positioned below the options so you're less likely to miss-click, and far from the "Vote" button for the same reason. Hopefully with enough space that it'll still work when translated.

@pachli I think that's a good solution.

@Jener @pachli Äänestä. 7 letters in Finnish.

@kallekn @pachli, and, proportionally to the number of letters, it has the largest number of dots I saw in one word.

@Jener @pachli How do you like jäääär then?

https://www.jaaaar.eu/

@kallekn @pachli, cool!

And it isn't a repetition of letters to emphasize, it's a real word!

(I also miss the ü we had in Portuguese until a decade ago.)

@Jener @pachli In Swedish we also have å, which is nice. But there is seldom more than one of them. Except in Rååål, which means "an eel from Råå". (Råå is a small river in the south of Sweden, and a fishing village at the outlet of that village.)

@kallekn @pachli, oh, yes, I used to take subway at the Blåsut station in my almost 2 weeks in Stockholm, the ° was my clue to the å pronunciation. ;-)

@pachli @Jener Looks nice and works fine. I just need to translate it. But it feels a bit like cheating...

@keefmarshall yeah. Doesn't let you vote after seeing the results though (without refreshing the page I think). New design incoming...

@pachli I'm actually OK with that.. either vote then see the results, or skip voting and go straight to what other people say.

Most polling systems don't let you see the result and *then* vote, in case it influences your choice.

@keefmarshall Yeah, but that feels like an implementation issue in the web UI than a deliberate decision (since you can just reload the page). If it was deliberate then I'd expect viewing the results to then prevent voting.

@pachli I guess it's hard to know if it's a conscious UI decision because it's hard to implement in the API, an unforeseen bug that refreshing resets it, or just an omission in the UI that there's no way to go back without refreshing.

Whichever, I actually quite like the web UI's implementation, it feels right to me. But I'm sure the alternatives you're proposing will be fine too - and of course there's no way to refresh easily in the app.