Selected poll options reset, when a different user votes on the same poll
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bug
feature: frontend 🖌️
feature: polls 📊
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Steps to reproduce
- Create a poll with multiple options and multiple choice
- Open the poll as user A and select some of the options, but not all
- Open the poll as user B and submit it (probably doesn't matter which options are selected)
Expected behaviour
The selected poll options should stay in their state, when someone else votes.
Actual behaviour
All poll options are deselected.
Talk app
Talk app version: c.nc.c
Browser
Operating system: Linux
Browser name: Firefox
Browser version: 155
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with a multiple-choice poll in the Talk app, using two users and the listed Firefox/Linux setup. Trace the poll UI update that runs when another user submits a vote; done means the first user's partially selected options remain selected after that update.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100