A few years ago I was an enthusiastic user of Doodle polls but I went back to set-up a poll today to find the most convenient date for a bunch of people to get together and it seems that Doodle has been "improved" Cough! I want to offer a date in June, a couple in July and one in August. The "unimproved" Doodle had a simple interface to set-up the possible dates and to present them to recipients. The "improved" version has made this messy BUT now offers monthly views, rather than just the possible dates, to recipients - virtually useless! Have I missed a setting, is there a way to revert to "good ol'" version, is there a good alternative?
OT'ish: what has happened to Doodle polls?
May 18, 2022
Last reply: 2 years ago
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Never heard of it, I thought everybody used survey monkey?
Thanks, I'd forgotten about survey monkey and have just used it to do what I needed. A much better interface than the "improved" Doodle
Take a look at FramaDate:
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A couple of years ago I had to start scheduling meetings online. One or two participants didn't like using Doodle for perceived security reasons.
I actually ended up running my own instance of Framadate, and still do. But the public one is fine.
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#Paul
Like you, I was a regular user of the (free) doodle poll. I noticed doodle had suddenly had an upgrade, I couldn't do what I used to be able to do, and they seemed to want money - so maybe they've decided it's time to monetise the idea from all the freeloaders like me :-) Glad for all the recommendations posted on this thread and will watch with interest.
Found this post in the same way. Doodle upgrade is our loss. Trying to be Calendly. Survey Monkey is unusable for this purpose. When it's easier to create a google form....
I stopped using it a couple of years ago when some participants objected to adverts/privacy issues.
I now use framadate
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However, I run my own private copy on an AWS instance.
I hate survey monkey, many are unusable with a screenreader. Brian
I was about to give up on Doodle but discovered that the 'problem' was simply that I'd 'accepted' Doodle to share my personal (Google) calendar, now removed that acceptance and it seems to be back to the old Doodle that I quite like
I use an open source one called framadate, that I run on my own server. They seems to have ceased support, but I have the source!
Once you have the Google account you need to run the Play store, Google shove that account everywhere.
Or in my case when you let Google workspace manage your company browser.
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