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Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by 1p1e1 »

poleapple wrote: post #20
1p1e1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, yes and yes! :) You can read a bit more below: - Images (+GIFs) in multiple choice questions: https://tally.so/help/customize-your-form#c20941c50a8149abba... - Zapier integration: https://tally.so/help/zapier-integration - Pre-populating form fields: https://tally.so/help/pre-populate-form-fields

Is there a more convenient way to pre-populate form fields, not via URL? What if I have a form with 50 questions and long answers, and I want the user to be able to go back the form and update their responses?

You can pre-populate fields from another field as well, would that work for you?

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by 1p1e1 »

hhw3h wrote: post #23
1p1e1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, yes and yes! :) You can read a bit more below: - Images (+GIFs) in multiple choice questions: https://tally.so/help/customize-your-form#c20941c50a8149abba... - Zapier integration: https://tally.so/help/zapier-integration - Pre-populating form fields: https://tally.so/help/pre-populate-form-fields

Awesome that's great. Can I redirect the form submission to 2 different pages? One for accepted applicants and one for rejected applicants?

Yes, that's possible.

Redirect on completion can point to a form field (those include calculated fields). So you can use conditional logic to determine when an application is accepted/rejected and based on that set the redirect URL in a calculated field. Then you can use this calculated field in the Redirect on completion.

You can read more about the above mentions features here:

- Redirect on completion: https://tally.so/help/redirect-on-completion

- Conditional logic: https://tally.so/help/conditional-form-logic

- Calculated fields: https://tally.so/help/form-calculator

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by satya71 »

oefrha wrote: post #22

Very nice product! That said, > Partial submissions > Collect answers from people who filled in a part of your form, but didn’t click the submit button. Capture data from lost leads, find drop off points and improve your conversion rates. From a user point of view, I really hate this. I’d say collecting data about drop off points is fine, but secretly collecting answers not intended for submission is a dark pattern t…

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll block Tally using uBlock.

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by cldellow »

1p1e1 wrote: post #28
oefrha wrote: post #22

Very nice product! That said, > Partial submissions > Collect answers from people who filled in a part of your form, but didn’t click the submit button. Capture data from lost leads, find drop off points and improve your conversion rates. From a user point of view, I really hate this. I’d say collecting data about drop off points is fine, but secretly collecting answers not intended for submission is a dark pattern t…

I do agree with your point. It was a highly requested feature, indeed. It's available only with our Pro plan, so it's not widely available to everyone.

Maybe I misread the OP, but I took their point to be that the feature "violates [...] user's privacy."

To say you agree, but it's OK because people pay you for it suggests that you don't really agree.

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by ibdf »

SamBam wrote: post #26
Michael_Sieb wrote: post #7

Love the Notion like design!

Indeed, it looks identical to Notion, and with the .so url, I assumed that it was related to Notion, but I don't see anything obviously saying that on the front page. (I didn't look deeply, however.)

I was thinking exactly the same thing. This has to be a notion product no? It's identical.

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by 1p1e1 »

cldellow wrote: post #34
1p1e1 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do agree with your point. It was a highly requested feature, indeed. It's available only with our Pro plan, so it's not widely available to everyone.

Maybe I misread the OP, but I took their point to be that the feature "violates [...] user's privacy." To say you agree, but it's OK because people pay you for it suggests that you don't really agree.

That wasn't my point. I meant the feature is available to a very small subset of our users. Then even a smaller subset chooses to use it and I believe, it's up to the form creator to add a disclaimer on why this is necessary for their use case.

Re: Show HN: Tally Forms – A free Typeform alternative

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Post by mattkevan »

oefrha wrote: post #22

Very nice product! That said, > Partial submissions > Collect answers from people who filled in a part of your form, but didn’t click the submit button. Capture data from lost leads, find drop off points and improve your conversion rates. From a user point of view, I really hate this. I’d say collecting data about drop off points is fine, but secretly collecting answers not intended for submission is a dark pattern t…

This is a terrible idea - the data isn’t yours until it’s been explicitly given.

A few years ago I was the UX lead at a big uk website. At the time, the commercial team were wanting to steal unsubmitted personal data from forms and just couldn’t grasp why it was so wrong.

I’d been fighting them on it for ages, but thankfully a few other large sites got into trouble for doing it and I was able to convince the business that the reputational damage wasn’t worth whatever value we might glean from it. Our users were savvy, privacy conscious and extremely vocal and would have gone mental if it came out we were doing it too.

Couldn’t believe it was even a conversation I needed to have.

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