Feature Proposal: Multilingual Landing Page, Statistics, and More

[SilvanVerhoeven]

Heyho,

we've used mahlowat at our university for two years now. This year, I extended the feature set. I've added:

• a landing page to showcase the available languages
• anonymous usage statistics
• call to actions (like a button with "request postal vote now") at the end
• branding (logo and link to an organisation)

I've also improved the UX in generator.html a bit (to my eyes).

Since I wanted to preserve the features for following years and let others profit from them, I forked the repo and made them accessible via an own setup.html (basically a generator.html for all the new features).

Now I am unsure how to proceed: should mahlowat be "updated" to receive these features (they demand quite some changes to the current structure) or should both repos co-exist?

Check out #14 to see the changes.

Thanks a lot for providing mahlowat, it is a very nice software!

[HSZemi]

Those seem like nice additions. However, I think that your modifications make the whole setup a lot more complicated, especially for simple one-language deployments. And I have already seen quite a few people struggle with the setup in its current form.

Therefore, I think the best way to go ahead will be to keep Mahlowat in its simple state, and have people use Vote-O-mat if they with to use the additional features it provides.

[SilvanVerhoeven]

Understandable. I totally agree with you that the complexity increases. If you don't mind, I'd open another PR that references Vote-O-Mat in the README, as Vote-O-Mat does with mahlowat. That way, people can find their best fitting solution more easily.