I made a website that lets you use ranked choice voting in a mock UK General Election to explain how it works.

https://publicslate.co.uk/

I don't know if this is too self-promotey to put in the more serious subs so I'm putting it here. I need to blag being able to do the django framework so I spent a week fannying about with it to make this. Feel free to mess about with it, give feedback or repost it on reddit or any other lemmy knock-offs.

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Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Needs more data, but good work!

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Data. And. Cowbell.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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manicdave@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The first step in my mental roadmap for making this more than a toy is going to be user accounts and magic links, so small orgs can manually vet people for local party branches and meetings. I'll have to look into TLSNotary.

AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Off-topic: why .co.uk rather than .uk?

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Why .uk rather than .co.uk?

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 5 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Wasn't .co.uk originally meant to be for UK companies? And with .uk available, it's just easier to not have to type three superfluous characters.

But all in all, there's no correct answer. I was just curious, as it's the first chance I've had to ask someone that registered a new UK based tld recently.

christophski@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I think by the time .UK was available, people were already totally used to .co.uk so it's still a bit jarring to use the new one

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 1 pts · 2y

Oh for sure. I don't even see any websites trying to switch or even purchasing the .UK versions.

It doesn't help that we have no words that end with uk.

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y

Oh right... I dunno. Same, I've never had to ask 🤭.

manicdave@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Good point. I kinda rushed it and didn't really think to check. Just bought it cause .uk is a better tld

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 2y

Fair

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Just a heads up. I got everyone in my house to vote and its only showing one ballot cast

manicdave@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Sorry about that. Only way I could think to stop spam was to use IP as unique id. Try disconnecting from WiFi.

Edit: if you've already voted, it overwrites that vote with the new one. This is just the quickest laziest way of stopping someone using a bot to skew the results.

sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 2y

Thanks for the info

blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y

This is great! It would be good to post it to uk_politics to get more numbers!