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ANNOUNCEMENT: the first-ever Beehaw Community Survey! (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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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@beehaw.org 46 points 1 year ago

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@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

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@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] vinniep@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] iamhazel@beehaw.org 3 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@beehaw.org 5 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@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

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@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

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)