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[CLOSED] the first-ever Beehaw Community Survey! (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza to c/support

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UPDATE: RESULTS HAVE CLOSED! thank you for your participation—we've received over 1,500 responses which is quite a lot more than we expected. aggregated results and community creation decisions should hopefully come in due time.

hello folks!

with our backlog cleared and many new people around, now's a good time to do our first-ever Beehaw Community Survey--the first of what will likely be(e) many to come. this survey should take no more than 5 or 10 minutes to fill out, so we strongly encourage you to do so when you are able to. you can find it at the following link:

Beehaw Community Survey

the survey is comprised of seven optional demographic questions to help us assess the overall identity of our community and three questions relating to Beehaw and the Fediverse. it also asks you about 17 possible communities we are considering and whether you would actively participate in them if made.

the survey will be open for approximately a week. we'll definitely close it before July 1, so please get your responses in before that date. it'll also be locally pinned for at least the next three days or so, so please mind that. thanks!

results will also be aggregated and posted on here in a summary sometime thereafter. no ETA on that though.

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[–] hakerdefo 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I make a wee suggestion?

It'll be nice if you guys can use something other than "Google Forms" for future surveys. Something a bit more privacy respecting than "Google Forms" will be a better choice for platform like Beehaw. A few suggestions,

EUSurvey
Nextcloud Forms
LiberaForms
OhMyForm
Form Tools

This is just a personal opinion expressed with a view to improve Beehaw experience. No offense intended.

[–] vinniep 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was also a little turned around when I saw a Google form show up.

I think the long-term answer here is for a native poll feature right in the platform. There's a feature request for this on the Lemmy github project.

Until then, though, everything's just a temporary placeholder solution.

[–] Lionir 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note that for our survey, a poll would not be nearly complex enough.

[–] vinniep 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very fair point, unless the Poll feature is not only implemented, but suffers from an insane amount of feature creep as well.

[–] Lionir 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, like, I don't want checkbox polling, free-forms and other stuff crammed in there - I would go insane 😰

[–] iamhazel 4 points 1 year ago

On the other hand I think it would be an awesome option but think they should be hidden behind an advanced editor.

[–] hakerdefo 6 points 1 year ago

Mastodon has this feature baked right in. It'll be great if this feature makes it way into Lemmy as well. 🤞

[–] alyaza 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we will investigate these but no promises we'll switch (beyond whether they have the features we need--which i'm not so worried about--ease of access is also a consideration we need to make with surveys. our audience is also not exclusively tech people and we are, bluntly, not nearly as absolutist with the need for privacy as many of the people on lemmy.)

[–] alyaza 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh, cost/resources are another consideration. our finances aren't exactly in a place where we can eat huge costs of any kind, so out of hand we're going to be a lot less willing to consider stuff with a big price tag (especially when we can't yet gauge how many surveys we'll be doing and on what schedule)

[–] hakerdefo 12 points 1 year ago

Again, I can't argue against this point. Money is a necessary evil to consider for sure 💰

[–] hakerdefo 10 points 1 year ago

Ease of access is for sure an important thing.