Which form/poll/survey tool to use?

Questions
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I’m searching for a private poll/survey/form service which can be embedded in an iframe. Mainly for conducting surveys whereby the user answers are encrypted and can only be decrypted by me.

On the forums are referred:

  • vaultform
  • palform
  • myprivacypolls
  • cryptpad forms

Which survey tool(s) would fit privacyguides privacy standards?

EDIT: I tried these and find

  • Vaultform not useful to me. Only simple text questions and text field answers.
  • palform has Google and cloudflare all over the place. So much for privacy …
  • myprivacypolls sounds terrific, but not useful to me. No answer related subquestions.
  • cryptpad forms. Kind of OK, doesn’t play ball with embedding in iframes.
  • LimeSurvey (thanks kissu) I am :face_with_spiral_eyes: to selfhosting and coding and securing
  • Framadate beta (thanks kissu) is a simple Q&A with only 3 unchangable checkbox answers

Any help in finding a good solution much appreciated!

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Self-hosted LimeSurvey is a common choice.

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This for self-hosting: GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

You don’t specifically need to go hardcore on security/etc if you plan on doing it locally or for something non critical.

4

Thanks for the interesting resources. Given all the personal data breaches, regardless of critical or not, I know I can not security/privacy myself and I’m really looking for a privacy first service.

5

You’ll be surprised by how insecure most apps are and how people do not care even an inch about it. :sweat_smile:

Check for some public hosted instances from the previous link like Poll creation – Framadate BETA
Might be good enough for your use case?

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I don’t think it’s as scary as you make it out to be. If you use a tunnel like cloudflared, your actual IP would never be exposed to anybody but cloudflare. You wouldn’t have to do any port forwarding or anything like that. Just configure the tunnel. Alternatively you could pay to host it on a VPS.

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PG doesn’t allow me to update OP any more. Here is another one I tried.

Tally I find has the best mix of features, but it uses at least plausible, googleapis, and sentry. So no privacy.

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I haven’t done any Web dev in years, but these days AI tools can easily code such a thing from scratch almost instantly to host on your own server.

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I use these ones:

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Doesn’t mean it does it well unfortunately. :sweat_smile:

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I would never recommend for a non-expert to even consider doing this. LLMs are a tool to accelerate the work, not replace the dev. LLMs do a lot of dumb shit unless you steer them in right direction. If you’re not an expert already for what you’re trying to create, the result is guaranteed to be bad in comparison to just using somebody else’s project.

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