Since my last update, I've been working on getting polls to a stable production release. I'm glad to say that Polls are now live!.

Pull request: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/pull/8

What does this mean?

Hive frontends like hive.blog, PeakD, 3Speak and Ecency can now start working on integrating polls for their users. Even a separate frontend for polls alone can leverage this feature.

Integrating polls on Hive frontends

For a frontend to successfully integrate polls on Hive Plug & Play, two aspects need to be developed.

1) custom_json operations:

create operation to allow a user to create polls: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/protocols/polls.md#create
vote operation to allow a user to vote on an individual poll's answers: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/protocols/polls.md#vote

2) API endpoints:

Documentation: https://github.com/imwatsi/haf-plug-play/blob/master/docs/api/plugs/polls.md
Postman: https://www.postman.com/imwatsi/workspace/hive-plug-play

get_poll_permlink: get a valid and unique permlink to use with a new poll
get_polls_active: get a list of active polls, within a specific tag if specified
get_poll_votes: get votes for a specified poll

Why the delay?

In my last update, I estimated polls to be done in about a week. It took longer than expected because I upgraded the HAF code to use the latest release, which then necessitated upgrades to both development and production servers to accommodate the new disk space requirements. So I had to setup both servers again from scratch.

A few bugs were also discovered in the core HAF code that caused the node to encounter errors when hived was restarted. See https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive/haf/-/issues/20.

This delayed the completion of polls because restarts are common during development and testing. So every time the node restarted, a blockchain replay was needed. The Blocktrades team is working on a solution and it should be resolved soon.

Production Server: https://plug-play.imwatsi.com

Dev Server: https://plug-play-beta.imwatsi.com (unstable, may not be available at times)

Current work scope

assist frontends with polls integration
work on improvements and stability fixes for polls
onboard Podping
landing page and sample web apps
work on improving setup and installation
custom_json design recommendations
documentation for setting up custom nodes

That's it for this update!

Proposal

The DHF proposal for this project is now funded. Thank you for supporting this project.

I run a Hive witness node:
- Witness name: imwatsi
- HiveSigner