# Unique index style for Voting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** topic-voting
**Created:** [March 19, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499 "2017-03-19T16:46:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/1 "2017-03-19T16:46:43Z")
Practically every other feature voting app has a more minimalist, cleaner design:
- [Feature Requests | Dododex](https://dododex.canny.io/feature-requests)
- [HubSpot Community - HubSpot Ideas - HubSpot Community](http://ideas.hubspot.com/forums/76407-general-hubspot-ideas)
- [https://big.ideas.aha.io/](https://big.ideas.aha.io/)
- [https://feedback.unity3d.com/](https://feedback.unity3d.com/)
- [https://getsatisfaction.com/livescribe/ideas/popular](https://getsatisfaction.com/livescribe/ideas/popular)
- [All Ideas | Help Center - UseResponse](https://help.useresponse.com/topics/idea/status/all/category/all/sort/popular/page/1)
- [Topics / New features / Community forum / UserEcho](https://feedback.userecho.com/forums/1-general/categories/18-new-features/topics/)
I took some cues from these designs and tried to mock up a similar one for Discourse without doing anything too radical:
- Vote counts on the left
Wouldn’t necessarily need to be interactive. If that’s tricky, just go to topic upon click.
- Showing status (to-be-proposed feature addition)
- Showing _voters_ instead of posters (I think they should be displayed in order of: Staff, TL4, TL3 etc.)
- Hiding Activity and Views. Only showing replies.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/2 "2017-03-20T01:34:58Z")
I am not following, what is more minimalist about this? You added stuff to each line?
Suppressing date is probably fine, if date actually does not matter.. you could be voting on something 5 years old?
Also if we are suppressing columns, why is number of replies needed, why does that matter?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/3 "2017-03-20T01:41:39Z")
Status is doable today with staff tags, to me the biggest piece that is missing now is an excerpt of the “staff response” in topic list, but that is missing from this mockup
[https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo](https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo)
Uservoice include idea excerpt and staff response excerpt in the list + voting widget.
That said, I would like to hold off on these kind of changes for now.
You can see the specific issue here [https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/airbus-a330-rework/67410](https://community.infinite-flight.com/t/airbus-a330-rework/67410), tons of votes, but what does staff think about it? A tag is not enough a solved like excerpt would help.
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### Author:  [@Hugo\_Roger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hugo_Roger)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/4 "2017-04-07T23:30:53Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Suppressing date is probably fine, if date actually does not matter.. you could be voting on something 5 years old?
Would that be a bad thing? If it’s worth a vote 5 years later, wouldn’t be fine?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/5 "2017-04-08T02:17:51Z")
Most voting processes do not work that way, no.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/6 "2018-04-04T07:49:19Z")
The clean design of Canny is really growing on me. Quick mock-up:
Only downside is that it requires so little space that it’ll look a bit off on our standard desktop width unless we make it more narrow than the default, like in my mockup.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unique-index-style-for-voting/59499/7 "2025-12-02T13:09:35Z")