Rallly - alternative to Doodle

marcusquinn

"Collaborative Scheduling Done Right
Rallly lets you and your friends vote on a date to host an event"

Doesn't seem to do timezones, which is a handy feature with remote international teams but I signed up for a preview and the dev seems to be aware of that: https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly/issues/22

Otherwise seems to be the best of the bunch for this?

nebulon

This indeed looks great, but unfortunately also not developed anymore. The author seems to be working on a new version, for which I cannot find a repo, but only a site at https://try.rallly.co/

marcusquinn

Yeah, I looked at the alternatives but didn't see anything else as nicely designed.

Anyone else know of anything similar?

Nextcloud plugins perhaps?

marcusquinn

@nebulon Sometimes I think apps that don't have much recent development can be that way just because they are complete and stable

marcusquinn

Think I prefer Croodle: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3282/croodle-alternative-to-doodle/4

jdaviescoates

Just FYI, I reached out to the Rallly developer on Twitter. Doesn't sound like the new version is coming any time soon, and possibly wont even be open source by the sounds of it:

https://twitter.com/imlukevella/status/1311969867403341826

marcusquinn

Odd, just had my demo access invite email, but codebase doesn't seem active: https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly

jdaviescoates

@marcusquinn I think he's doing a complete rewrite and hasn't yet open sourced the latest code

See https://twitter.com/imlukevella/status/1311969867403341826?s=20&t=fXFyiDJwwaQwdAD1y5jvrw

Yeah I wouldn't suggest using the current version. I'd be curious about the vulnerabilities in the node dependencies given that the last update to them was 3 years ago

girish

@marcusquinn said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

Doesn't seem to do timezones, which is a handy feature with remote international teams but I signed up for a preview and the dev seems to be aware of that: https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly/issues/22

This got fixed recently, time to give this a packaging try.

main.wheel7527

It seems now there are updates, it seems to work good and it's good looking.
https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly

jdaviescoates

@girish said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

time to give this a packaging try.

How far did you get? Be great to finally have a doodle alternative on Cloudron!

msbt

No idea why, but today I felt like building something and here it is:
https://git.cloudron.io/msbt/rallly-app

There are a few caveats:

There are no official tags or releases, this package clones the latest files from the Github repo, which may be problematic at some point.
yarn build didn't work with symlinks, so the workaround is as follows:
- yarn is being triggered in the Dockerfile
- on startup the files are being copied to /run/rallly
- from there yarn prisma migrate deploy, yarn build and finally yarn start are being triggered in start.sh - not sure if /run is being emptied at some point, but I've added a check to copy and run the commands again if this should happen
There are no user accounts, everyone can use your instance (it's possible to add Cloudron auth to it, but that somewhat defeats the point when sending out emails to a non-public site. That said, maybe only some endpoints could be protected, but again, the dev might change those along the way and it will stop working)
I don't think you can edit the main page, so you basically have a clone of their site

Other than that I only tested for a bit but the important things seems to be working (i.e. email, export,...)

girish

@msbt The front page issue is discussed here - https://github.com/lukevella/rallly/discussions/137

jdaviescoates

@msbt said in Rallly - alternative to Doodle:

I don't think you can edit the main page, so you basically have a clone of their site

I wonder if Kukkee might better in this regard, looks like another one to explore at least (although seems like it's still early days).

Edit: Framadate too, of course, from the good people at Framasoft (and also the app in this space that currently has the most upvotes in the wishlist)

marcusquinn

Rallly has the best UI/UX and active development of all of them by far, IMHO. This would be my top pick. Great work @msbt

marcusquinn

Seems to handle timezones too.

nebulon

This is published as unstable. Forum section is at https://forum.cloudron.io/category/154/rallly

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