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.
It’s great you’re asking for (and getting) constructive feedback and responding so thoughtfully to it.
My suggestion is to try and get a template that has the demographic questions already setup. Having to add them manually is a pain for you and can lead to these slight glitches. There should be a few templates around as even from country to country they are pretty standardised.
I did initially do that but the problem came that ethnicity is just very very complicated (and controversial) so it was cut down to whiteness to make the most sense from a poc pov.
That said, for countries, now that it is done, duplicating the form should not be hard so now that the effort was put in, there’s not much need to start over. I also expect that if I base myself on a template then things like Kosovo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau would not be handled.
it’s also worth noting imo that seeing the data come in, there was no major problem as unfortunately, our demographic is not as diverse as one might think (most probably because we inherit a lot of biases in demographics from Reddit). It’ll be exciting to show the results.