Beehaw Support

2797 readers

46 users here now

Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Penguincoder@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

285

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

204 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

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

I was also a little turned around when I saw a Google form show up.

I think the long-term answer here is for a native poll feature right in the platform. There's a feature request for this on the Lemmy github project.

Until then, though, everything's just a temporary placeholder solution.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Note that for our survey, a poll would not be nearly complex enough.

[–] vinniep@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very fair point, unless the Poll feature is not only implemented, but suffers from an insane amount of feature creep as well.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, like, I don't want checkbox polling, free-forms and other stuff crammed in there - I would go insane 😰

[–] iamhazel@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

On the other hand I think it would be an awesome option but think they should be hidden behind an advanced editor.

[–] hakerdefo@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Mastodon has this feature baked right in. It'll be great if this feature makes it way into Lemmy as well. 🤞