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NetTally is a program designed to count votes on discussion forums, typically for 'quest' threads where forum posters help guide the course of a story.
Before running the program, you'll want to be sure you meet the program requirements.
NetTally requires .NET 4.6. This is available on any version of Windows of Vista or higher.
Note: Versions up to 1.7.10.1 are usable on .NET 4.5.2.
There is no installer. Just unzip the files into their own directory, and run the .exe
The latest version of the program can be downloaded from the Releases page. The program itself (since version 1.1.1) will notify you if a new version is available, with a link at the bottom of the program window.
Experimental versions may be made available on Google Drive. In addition, there's a subdirectory within Google Drive folder, called 'NetTally', that contains the unzipped program. If you link the Google Drive folder to your own (running the desktop version of Google Drive), it should automatically update to the latest version placed there.
As an alternative, there is a commandline version of the program which can be run on any system that has .NET Core 1.1 installed (including OSX and Linux).
It will not run on Windows XP, as XP can only run .NET 4.0, and is no longer being updated or supported.
If you wish to edit the code, it's written using C#. The VS2017 branch uses features requiring Visual Studio 2017. The VS2015 branch has been retired, but may be used with Visual Studio 2015. The Community Edition is available for free from Microsoft.
The program has primarily been tested on the forums for Sufficient Velocity, Space Battles, and Questionable Questing. It should work on any forum based on the XenForo forum software, as well as any vBulletin v3/4/5 forum. Attempts to get it working on other forums have been hindered by limitations in the forum software that make it difficult or impossible to track threads.
A cookie needs to be added for any forum that needs a login in order to read the forum threads. This has only been done for the Questionable Questing forum at this time (using a universal cookie created specifically to support NetTally), but creating a build for any other such forum is pretty trivial.
For information on using the program, and what all the options do, go to the page on Program Usage.
For usage of the commandline version of the program, check the wiki page on Commandline Usage.
Check the page on Writing Votes for rules on valid vote construction in user posts.
Check the page on Managing Votes for instructions on how to manage votes (eg: merging or deleting, or assigning or changing tasks).
Check the Releases page for information on what has changed in each version.