[CLOSED] the first-ever Beehaw Community Survey! (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[-] misguidedfunk@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

That’s a great list of potential communities.

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Q: Do you have an account on beehaw?
A: No.
The end.

Well that was fast. Much less than the mentioned 5 to 10 minutes.

[-] vkeycaps@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Would be nice to have a community about diy and crafts

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[-] Nugget@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Great survey, I'm excited about some of the community options. I would love something akin to r/BuyItForLife - a genuine place to find products based on the feedback of real people. In particular, low waste products (maybe that fits in the sustainability category?)

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[-] GlassHalfHopeful@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

I typically avoid demographic questions for a lot of reasons, but I wanted to participate for beehaw's sake since I understand their intentions. Damn though. Some of those boxes are just filled with all sorts of loaded emotional yuck.

I don't mean it as a criticism. Again, I get why and the value, but phew... 😬

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Do you think there's anything we can do to make it less loaded? I'd love to improve it to make people more comfortable

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[-] wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Nice survey!

Personally I'd like there to be more bee puns in the community names, but that's just bee

... I'll see myself out.

[-] lumarius@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

I would be interested in a vegan & vegetarian community, but since vegetarian is a superset of a vegan diet, the combination would make the community effectively vegetarian. One of my favourite communities on reddit was r/vegan, where the discussions were usually much broader than just food-related, and on the other hand there was no need to look through delicious-looking food pictures to find out they were not vegan when looking for food. Hence, I would appreciate a specifically vegan community even more.

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[-] xektor17@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Dímelo, boricua! ✌️🇵🇷

[-] marco@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

I've done my civic duties, surveyed and donated 🌠

[-] PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Interested in seeing the demographic information that comes out of this. Aside, it would be useful in the future to have the ability to select multiple options on the gender and sexual orientation questions. I fall under more than one option in both of those.

[-] koezie@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Done! Also, just throwing out a couple suggestions for communities for possible future installment:

Style (clothing/shoes/makeup/skincare/etc)
Collectibles or Hobbies (toys/cards/pins/plushies/etc)

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[-] 60winks@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

All done! Have a lovely weekend Beehaw!!

[-] Hyperz@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Done. Looking forward to the results :)

[-] crank@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Seeing the list of potential new communities is useful. I had a hard time even clicking on even one option and it was a bit of a stretch. I probably wouldnt realistically participate in any of them, they do not suit me. So it is more to know about the instance.

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