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##Welcome to the NetTally wiki!

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.

####Program Requirements

Before running the program, you'll want to be sure you meet the program requirements.

NetTally requires .NET 4.5.2. This is available on any version of Windows of Vista or higher.

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 Google Drive. In addition, there's a subdirectory within that 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, so you don't have to check for newer .zip files yourself.

Limitations

It will not run on Windows XP, as XP can only run .NET 4.0, and is no longer being updated or supported.

With the recent porting of the .NET framework to Mac and Linux, it may be possible to compile the program on each of those platforms. I have not done so personally, however, so I can't comment on how feasible the implementation is.

The program code is written so as to isolate the core functionality into a DLL separate from the actual UI. In theory, this could then be used to create a version of the program that would run on Android using the Xamarin framework. However it's not possible to compile any working program with the free Starter Edition of Xamarin because of the extremely restrictive limitations imposed there (max total program size of 128 KB, when 80 KB is required just for the HTML parsing library). Anyone with a paid version of Xamarin who wishes to build the UI for a version that will run on Android will likely have the appreciation of many users.

####Forums 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.

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, but creating a build for any other such forum is pretty trivial; just edit the ForumCookies.cs file.

####Program Usage For information on using the program, and what all the options do, go to the page on Program Usage

####Rules for creating votes Check the page on Writing Votes for rules on valid vote construction in user posts.