So I want to make a cloud poll to see what people should focus on making.

I have an idea in mind…

when this sprite clicked//this would be the voting script
change [☁️ Option1 v] by (1)
set [voted? v] to [yes]

when green flag clicked//if somebody went inside to show it to vote again, it would count as a change to the project, and it would not save to the actual project's server.
forever
if <(voted?)=[yes]> then 
hide
else
show
end
end

But I'm not 100% sure it works.

The voted variable will just be reset when they reload the project so serves no purpose. The only way to keep track of who has voted is to encode and store their username which is a lot of work for something like this.

deck26 wrote:

(#2)
The voted variable will just be reset when they reload the project so serves no purpose. The only way to keep track of who has voted is to encode and store their username which is a lot of work for something like this.

In my clicker game, I intentionally made it so the variables don't reset, and when I reloaded it, It saved my progress

If only cloud lists were still a thing…

Sorry, not much you could do unless you asked everyone to remix the project with their answer, or maybe put their answers in the comments.

ask [Did you lose your music file?] and wait
if <(answer) = [yes]> then
say [Visit the link below!]
end

zappgame_version3 wrote:

deck26 wrote:

(#2)
The voted variable will just be reset when they reload the project so serves no purpose. The only way to keep track of who has voted is to encode and store their username which is a lot of work for something like this.

In my clicker game, I intentionally made it so the variables don't reset, and when I reloaded it, It saved my progress

If other users run one of your projects no data will survive a reload unless written to the cloud. Were you testing on the project page or in the editor? I suspect in your case you were essentially saving the project without realising or you restarted without reloading but whatever was happening it won't work for other users unless they restart without reloading.

MistaLOD wrote:

(#4)
If only cloud lists were still a thing…

Sorry, not much you could do unless you asked everyone to remix the project with their answer, or maybe put their answers in the comments.

yeah, But that would be L A M E

The only way too do it would be to encode their usernames as numbers and save them somehow or to just base it off the honor system.

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TheWeeklyReader wrote:

The only way too do it would be to encode their usernames as numbers and save them somehow or to just base it off the honor system.

There are three problems with this:
1: cloud variables have a 256 character limit
2: you can only have 10 cloud variables
3: when making a username into numbers, “X” and “x” are the same in scratch's eyes, so usernames would not be case-sensitive.

I've tried doing this, and it is technically possible to store a username into a cloud variable, but it would all be lower-case. It takes up the length of the username x2, so my username (MistaLOD) would take up 16 characters.

In an ideal world, a-z = 01-26, A-Z = 27=52, - = 53, _ = 54, 0-9 = 90-99, and 60 (or another number) would separate the usernames.

ask [Did you lose your music file?] and wait
if <(answer) = [yes]> then
say [Visit the link below!]
end