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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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[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

I am not a fan either people, but remember to propose a solution when you complain.

It must be free and as easy as Google Forms...

Framaforms (limited to 1000 responses)
Office365 (wait... No)
SurveyMonkey (limited to 10 questions)
LimeSurvey (freemium)
AirTable (I don't know, never used it...)

There are dozens more.

Again, I feel you, but if your reluctance is based on digital privacy, the rabbit hole will drive you mad.

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally speaking, I'm not opposed to paying money but LimeSurvey literally doesn't have a tier that would allow us to have everyone on the instance answer and it's ludicrously expensive. The closest they have is 10000 per year

The only realistic option for us would be to selfhost form software and personally, I don't feel like putting more weight on our sysadmins at the moment..

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not saying anyone should use something else just because Google bad. When I survey my students I use our school's MS Forms thing. If I want about 100 answers I use Framaforms. If I had to survey a large group of people like this, I would go for Google.

And, wow, I had no idea that LimeSurvey charged so much.