6 - Technical notes

Note: This article applies to the "legacy" version of polling, which will be deprecated starting January 1, 2023. We recommend that you refer to the live sessions documentation for setting up polls.

• After launching a poll, we recommend that you (or the speaker) pause for 10 to 15 seconds to ensure that everyone has joined, before displaying and starting the count down for the first question.
  
  
• At the end of a question, we recommend that you (or the speaker) wait a few seconds after the end of the count down before closing the voting, to ensure that users have the time to vote.
  
  
• Polling can be used with up to 1,000 users simultaneously, regardless of the number of polls run at a given time.
  
  
• We do not recommend that separately Backstage users run the same Live poll simultaneously.
  
  
• Multiple Backstage users can run polls from the same workspace, but each will need to use individual Live screens.
  
  
• Local nodes: We recommend that polls are run on the cloud.
  
  
• Receiving notifications:
  • Web app: In-app notifications only are received (no push notifications).
  • Native: In-app notifications are received if push notifications are disabled at the device OS level.
  • Notifications are always listed in the Notifications module.