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.
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.
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.)