Important Disappearing polls

If you add or delete options in a poll after you have created the poll then you will destroy the poll. When you create a poll, be very careful when you create it. If someone changes the poll after it is created, then the whole poll is destroyed. The only two classes of people who can do that are
(1) The person who creates the poll; and
(2) A forum moderator or site administrator.

The issue for the Kunena project, as we see things, is to find a "warning mechanism" to remind peole that, if they try to add or remove polling options, they will destroy the poll.

I'll give it another try, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't touch the forum between creating the poll and looking at the same topic without one.
Me being responsible for the issue would surely be my favourite solution

I am running K2.02 DEV version and have just found out I am experiencing the same problem. If you edit the post the poll disappears.

My issue is that i ordered the options when I first created the poll.
eg:
option 1 = 1900
option 2 = 1910
option 3 = 1920
option 4 = 1930
option 5 = 1940
option 6 = 1950
option 7 = 1960
option 8 = 1970
option 9 = 1980
option 10 = 1990

but after I submit the post and it is published option 10 actually becomes option 2 randomly.

option 1 = 1900
option 2 = 1990
option 3 = 1910
option 4 = 1920
option 5 = 1930
option 6 = 1940
option 7 = 1950
option 8 = 1960
option 9 = 1970
option 10 = 1980

So i go in to correct this issue by editing the post and then hit submit. It makes the change and now correctly puts the option 10 back in the right order as option 10.

i can see the poll and it all works. i come back 15 minutes later the poll in the post has disappeared.

quite annoying/frustrating

ok, tested again and have taken screenshots showing what happens to make me want to edit my poll and hence destroy the poll and make it disappear

Poll creation i type this:


and then i click submit and it shows like this:


looks like there is a bug :whistle:

peetree21 wrote: ... looks like there is a bug

Well, yes there's one defect you've found and maybe the original question could be considered a defect or it could be considered something like "once you've created a poll then you shouldn't change it".

Looking at the second issue that you've discovered, the order is not random. The order is based on the way the poll options are sorted. SQL is not very smart here: option 10 sorts lower than option 2, like this

1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

So that explains one aspect of the problem and, in this regard, it's a "bug" (strictly-speaking it's a design flaw). This defect only manifests itself if you have more than 9 options. Therefore, for most forum "straw polls", most people will never see this happen (especially when you consider that the default configuration setting is for a maximum of 8 options). Therefore, unless people change the configuration, this too is also fairly unlikely.

The question is, what do we do about it? The answer is to report it on GitHub. I have done this for you: github.com/Kunena/Kunena-2.0/issues/1041

On my forum if anyone edits any post in the thread with a poll it vanishes.