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[CLOSED] 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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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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[–] Isildun@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Done. As a side thought, I wonder if it would have been interesting to include both a “would contribute to” and a “would be interested in reading” (or similar concept). Undoubtedly there are countless lurkers here as there are on any social media site. It could be interesting to see what people are interested in lurking vs contributing to.

As a personal example, I don’t think I could contribute well to worldwide news, but I think it’s important to consume it to keep up to date (and I assume Beehaw would have more interesting stories than traditional news media’s “front page”).

Although, as a counter to my own suggestion, I suppose there’s no point in having a community that people are interested in reading but no one is interested in contributing to.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Although, as a counter to my own suggestion, I suppose there’s no point in having a community that people are interested in reading but no one is interested in contributing to.

this is basically the reason we settled on for the phrasing. we're not worried about whether a community will have eyes--we're already at a point where that's a given with the about 11,000 users we have before lurkers--but eyes aren't necessarily contributions and who wants a bunch of dead sections mucking up a place?

[–] valen@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. I'm primarily a lurker, and had to view "contribute" as "would appreciate such and such a community".

As an aside, I remember someone asking on Reddit for all the lurkers to be more active and post a lot. I really don't think this user would like Reddit if suddenly the number of posts/comments increased by at least a factor of 10, most of which would be stuff like "I agree with this" instead of just upvoting.