{"id":67,"title":"Limit participants to one vote by IP address","description":"Via an IP check you can now make it more difficult for unregistered participants to participate more than once in your online votes.","post_text":"With a \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003ePollUnit Online Voting\u003c/a\u003e you can quickly and easily create polls for participants with and without an account. In the last weeks we have been asked more and more if we can implement an IP-check to prevent multiple participation of unregistered users.\r\n\r\nAnd now the time has come: you have the possibility to block unregistered participants via the IP address if they have already voted once.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy have we only now implemented an IP check?\u003c/strong\u003e\r\nComputers in networks of schools, universities and companies often use the same IP address. Votings within a university should therefore preferably be carried out without an IP check in order not to exclude too many participants.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nYou can find out more about the security measures you can take in our tutorial \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/prevent_multiple_participation\"\u003ePreventing multiple participation\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2019-01-05T00:55:05.615Z","updated_at":"2019-01-31T01:30:22.815Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/67/limit-to-a-single-vote-by-ip-address"}
{"id":66,"title":"Export votes to Excel","description":"You can now export your PollUnit polls and surveys as .xlsx and open and evaluate them in Excel.","post_text":"With PollUnit you could already export your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003eOnline voting\u003c/a\u003e for further processing as CSV. If you now click on Export in the context menu of your PollUnit, you will also find the \u003cstrong\u003eExcel Export\u003c/strong\u003e.\r\n\r\nWe export the Excel file in XML format with the file extension xlsx. The xlsx format is supported from Excel version 2007. With the help of the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, this functionality can also be added for older Office versions (2000, 2003 and XP).","created_at":"2018-12-16T08:41:30.193Z","updated_at":"2019-01-03T09:59:20.983Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/66/export-votes-to-excel"}
{"id":65,"title":"Automatic recognition of the language in your polls","description":"With PollUnit you can share your polls in english or german. Get more information and a explanation how PollUnit automatically selects the right language for your participants.","post_text":"The PollUnit pages are currently available in english and german. So you can share your \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003epolls\u003c/a\u003e also in these languages.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eYou can choose the default language of your poll based on how you share the member link. The locale in the URL determines the language.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nExample: »pollunit.com\u003cstrong\u003e/en\u003c/strong\u003e/xyz«\r\n\r\nThe »/en« ensures that the poll is delivered in english. With »/de« it would be delivered in german.\r\nWe recommend that you omit the locale for international polls. So for example: »pollunit.com/xyz«. PollUnit automatically selects the correct language from your participants on the basis of the language of the browser. If it is not recognized, the english version is used.\r\n\r\nOur last PollUnit update \u003cstrong\u003echecks the browser language of your participants\u003c/strong\u003e and the default language you chose. If they don't match, the user will be asked if he wants to change the language.","created_at":"2018-12-05T23:55:54.369Z","updated_at":"2018-12-06T14:10:22.833Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/65/automatic-recognation-of-languages"}
{"id":64,"title":"Increased participant limit for your free votings","description":"Today there is good news for all our Free PollUnit users. We have doubled the free participant limit from 20 to 40 participants.","post_text":"\u003ci\u003eToday there is good news for all our Free PollUnit users. We have doubled the free participant limit from 20 to 40 participants.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nAbove all, private individuals and schools benefit from our update. The allowed number of participants is sufficient for \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/votings\"\u003efree online votings\u003c/a\u003e in school classes and the \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/de/tutorials/find_a_date\"\u003edate poll\u003c/a\u003e with the whole circle of friends.\r\n\r\nFor the full function range and online mass votings there are our favorable Premium, Business and Enterprise accounts. An overview of our prices and voting functions can be found in our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/accounts\"\u003eAccount Overview\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2018-12-03T23:59:04.100Z","updated_at":"2018-12-04T00:54:59.864Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/64/increased-participant-limit-for-your-free-votings"}
{"id":61,"title":"PollUnit Roadmap 2019","description":"What will happen next? You can already look forward to new PollUnit functions. Here you can find our Roadmap 2019!","post_text":"This year, 2018, we have concentrated on the further development of our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003eonline votings\u003c/a\u003e. Dot-voting, systemic consensus, encryption and many more features as well as a huge performance improvement will now help you with your group decisions. But where is the journey going? Here's a little preview of what's on our roadmap for next year.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eFree Tables\u003c/strong\u003e\r\nSimilar to our polls, you will be able to create a table and define columns here. However, your participants will not vote for an option, but each participant will be able to fill the columns with content in a row.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuestionnaires\u003c/strong\u003e\r\nIn the course of the next year we want to provide you with questionnaires.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCollect ideas\u003c/strong\u003e\r\nKeyword brainstorming: We will enable you to easily collect ideas from participants. \r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eSlack integration\u003c/strong\u003e\r\nWe are working on integrating PollUnits into Slack. Our plan is that you can create votings directly in Slack and the participants can vote there without leaving Slack. So you can easily control who can participate in a voting via slack channels. \r\n\r\nThe function you need is not included? Start a feature request in our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/forum/feature-requests\"\u003eSupport Forum\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2018-11-20T00:42:31.137Z","updated_at":"2018-11-28T07:17:38.834Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/61/roadmap-2019"}
{"id":63,"title":"PollUnit in c't computer magazine","description":"PollUnit in c't about Live Voting Tools","post_text":"In the current c't (25/2018), a german computer magazine, is a comparison about live voting tools. We are happy that PollUnit is also among the presented providers. \r\nHere is the link to the article: \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-25-Neun-Angebote-zum-sofortigen-Abstimmen-per-Smartphone-4225318.html\"\u003eLive Voting Tools\u003c/a\u003e","created_at":"2018-11-24T06:33:53.676Z","updated_at":"2018-11-26T12:29:36.555Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/63/live-voting-tools-ct"}
{"id":62,"title":"Infrastructure improvements","description":"New infrastructure and hardware now ensure an even more fail-safe PollUnit voting system.","post_text":"Our users and traffic increased more than sixfold in the last 12 months, and so we have prepared for the next sixfold increase. 😃\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eThanks to all of you who made PollUnit what it is now. Many of your ideas and comments have made PollUnit a better \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/voting\"\u003eVoting Tool\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/i\u003e 😍\r\n\r\nAnd that's how we have prepared ourselves: A new \u003cstrong\u003eLoadbalancer\u003c/strong\u003e distributes the load on different servers. Now we can boot single instances to be at your disposal for full speed, even during several huge votes. This makes PollUnit \u003cstrong\u003eeven more fail-safe\u003c/strong\u003e! \r\n \r\nFurthermore, we updated the hardware and \u003cstrong\u003eincreased the performance\u003c/strong\u003eof every single server.","created_at":"2018-11-21T11:49:48.794Z","updated_at":"2018-11-25T01:14:49.631Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/62/infrastructure%20improvements"}
{"id":59,"title":"Allowing only one entry per email address","description":"Avoid multiple participations in votes. Only users who have been verified by their email may vote.","post_text":"\u003ci\u003eTo make it more difficult for unknown users to participate more than once in your polls, you can now user our new »Account required« functionality.\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nThe whole thing works like this: In order for a user to participate in your poll or survey, he must first create a PollUnit account. The user has to enter his email address, then we send him an confirmation email. After the user has confirmed he can cast his vote. \r\n \r\nIn order to participate several times, the user would have to create several accounts with different email addresses.\r\n\r\nIn order to limit each user to exactly one participation and thus \u003cstrong\u003eprotect your votes and surveys against multiple participation\u003c/strong\u003e, you can also use the option »Invitation required«. For this, however, you need to know your participants and their e-mail addresses. PollUnit can then send unique invitations that allows a user to vote once.\r\n\r\nWe are currently discussing further possibilities how we can unambiguously identify unknown users and prevent multiple participation. \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/forum/feature-requests\"\u003eJoin the conversation in our Support Forum!\u003c/a\u003e","created_at":"2018-11-07T14:04:52.183Z","updated_at":"2018-11-12T08:01:47.861Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/59/allowing-only-one-entry-per-email"}
{"id":56,"title":"Online voting tool with P2P encryption","description":"Now you can use PollUnit to create online polls with peer-to-peer encryption. Read here how exactly we encrypt your data and how we prevent that we or others can read your data.","post_text":"New: Peer-To-Peer encryption. Now we can protect your secret votings, polls and sensitive data even better.\r\n\r\nWith \u003cstrong\u003epeer-to-peer encryption\u003c/strong\u003e (P2P), or end-to-end encryption, the data is encrypted by the sender before it is sent and decrypted by the recipient after it is received.\r\n\r\nThis means that PollUnits with such P2P technology \u003cstrong\u003ereceive and store your survey data encrypted\u003c/strong\u003e. This stored data cannot be decrypted or read by us! Only the users with the appropriate key can decrypt the data in your browser and make it readable again.\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003ePlease note that we cannot help you in a P2P voting with password loss!\u003c/i\u003e\r\n\r\nFurther information can be found in our help section \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/help#anchor-encrypt\"\u003eencryption\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2018-09-30T21:15:41.748Z","updated_at":"2018-10-13T19:18:05.878Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/56/online-voting-tool-with-peer-to-peer-encryption"}
{"id":58,"title":"New theme settings","description":"You can now activate headline shadows and glows in your theme settings. So you can increase the readability of headlines in your online polls on high-contrast background images.","post_text":"You can now activate headline shadows and glows in your theme settings. So you can increase the readability of headlines in your online polls on high-contrast background images.\r\n\r\nNew at PollUnit? Read more in our tutorial: \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/tutorials/create_theme\"\u003ePolls in your own design\u003c/a\u003e. Or try our \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en\"\u003efree poll creator\u003c/a\u003e with numerous \u003ca href=\"https://pollunit.com/en/public_themes\"\u003efree themes\u003c/a\u003e.","created_at":"2018-10-07T11:11:07.503Z","updated_at":"2018-10-09T09:48:04.341Z","url":"https://pollunit.com/en/posts/58/new-theme-settings"}