You’re seeing this before almost anyone else. Below: making a poll, what every switch on that screen actually does, and the corners worth wandering into. Ten minutes, tops.
Open any poll link, tap the option you agree with, and the result appears underneath. That’s the whole loop — no sign-up, no email, no install. Everything else is what happens once you’re curious enough to keep going.
Tap Create in the bottom bar. One screen, top to bottom, then a review step.
The best polls here are short and force a side: “The greatest Indian batter of all time?”, “Chai or coffee — settle it?” If someone has to read it twice, they scroll past.
Ask something people already argue about. You want the reaction “obviously it’s X, how is this even close”.
Five choices, and it isn’t cosmetic — the category is how people filter the home feed, so it decides who stumbles onto your poll months later.
If it doesn’t clearly fit, choose General. A mis-filed poll is worse than an unfiled one.
Options lock once voting starts — you can add more later, never remove.
Two minimum, no hard maximum — but past five or six the votes spread so thin that no result feels meaningful. Three or four is the sweet spot.
This is the one thing you can’t undo. Once a single vote lands, options are add-only forever: you can append a choice you forgot, but nothing can be removed or renamed. Deleting one would rewrite the history of everyone who already picked it.
Hiding results makes voting the payoff — the total count always stays visible.
Vote to reveal is the default and nearly always right. Results stay hidden, but a “Show results without voting” link lets the genuinely curious peek — which stops people bouncing.
Must vote removes that escape hatch: cleaner numbers, at the cost of some visitors leaving rather than committing. Always show suits polls where the running total is the attraction.
All off except Comments. You can ignore every one of them and still post a perfectly good poll — the defaults are the common case.
Turning on Timed adds a date-and-time picker underneath; the poll won’t post until you set a closing moment.
Voting on the original keeps opinion in one place.
You can edit or delete this until 10 votes. After that it becomes part of the permanent record — options stay add-only, and the poll can only be closed or hidden.
One last screen showing the poll as others will see it, plus two kinds of help. Neither one blocks you.
If someone already asked something close, you’ll see it — with a nudge to go vote there instead, since scattered duplicates split the crowd. Post anyway if your angle is genuinely different. You may also get wording, category or extra-option suggestions; tap Apply to take one, or don’t.
The panels above are built from the same styles as the real create screen.
You can edit or delete a poll until its 10th vote. Once it already has votes, saving asks you one question.
Keep the votes if you’re only fixing wording. Reset them if the meaning changed — a reset can’t be undone and voters aren’t notified.
Keep is for a wording fix — a typo in the question, a clearer phrasing. The votes stay exactly where they were, and the poll picks up an “edited” label.
Reset wipes the votes and starts the count at zero. It’s the honest choice when you’ve changed what the poll is really asking. It can’t be undone, and voters aren’t told.
The one thing neither button bends: you can’t rename or remove an option someone has already voted for while keeping the votes — that always needs a reset, because those votes were cast on the old wording. Adding a brand-new option is always fine.
Which filter tab your poll appears under on the home feed.
Reach for it when: Always — it's how people find it later.
Whether the split is hidden until someone votes, hidden with no escape hatch, or open to all.
Reach for it when: Leave it. Switch to Always show only when the live total is the attraction.
Lets people change their vote whenever they like, and samples the standing every hour so the trend can move both ways.
Reach for it when: Opinion can genuinely shift — form, mood, an unfolding story.
Adds a closing time. Afterwards the poll locks, shows final results to everyone, and fades out of search.
Reach for it when: The question has an answer soon — a match, a result, a premiere.
Shows names under the poll, but only for voters who separately opted in on their own profile. Everyone else is counted as anonymous.
Reach for it when: Rarely. It needs both sides to agree, so most lists stay mostly anonymous.
A discussion thread under the poll, with one level of replies and reactions.
Reach for it when: Turn it off for anything likely to attract heat.
After the first vote lands, you may append new choices but never remove or rename existing ones.
Reach for it when: Get these right before you share the link.
Full edit and delete stay available below ten votes — and once the poll has votes, saving lets you keep them (a wording fix) or reset them. Past ten votes you can still close or hide it, but not rewrite it.
Reach for it when: Fix typos immediately, before you send the link anywhere.
Four tabs along the bottom, and a menu behind the icon at the top left.
Filter chips for each category across the top. Above the list sit two strips: Moving now, polls whose leader recently changed, and Closing soon, timed polls about to lock. You can vote on a card without opening it.
Vote, and everything unfolds: the split, who else voted, the comment thread, related polls, a share button. Follow a poll to hear about it later, or report it if something’s wrong.
The part that makes this different from a survey. Every poll keeps a history of how the split has moved since it was posted — daily, or hourly for Pulse and timed polls.
Where you hear that a poll you voted on flipped, is about to close, or gained an option. Turn on notifications and it reaches you with the app shut.
Everything you’ve voted on and created, in one timeline. Also where you’d make your votes public, or set a display name and bio.
Their public polls and reposts — useful for judging whether the person behind a poll is worth following.
Finds polls by meaning, not just words — searching “batsman” surfaces the greatest-batter poll even though the word never appears in it. It searches option names too, so a player’s name finds the poll they’re listed in.
A five-slide, tap-through explanation of the whole idea. Thirty seconds, and the rest makes more sense afterwards.
It’s a proper web app — it’ll sit on your home screen like any other icon and open full-screen, without going near an app store.
On an ordinary poll your answer is final — that’s what makes the historical record mean anything. Only Pulse polls let you change your mind, and they say so with a badge.
Every poll carries a line saying so. These are the opinions of people who happened to find the poll and chose to answer — interesting, often revealing, but not a measurement of the country. We’d rather say that than pretend otherwise.
A question from months ago still gathering answers is the most valuable thing on the site. That’s the whole bet: what people thought, preserved, and still moving.
There’s a feedback button in the side menu, and it takes one line without an account. The useful reports are the unflattering ones — where you hesitated, what you expected to happen and didn’t, the moment you thought about closing the tab. Confusion is a bug.
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