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.

  • Manticore@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I’d use both askBeehaw and AMA if they were moved into subcommunities, but I don’t think they need to be. They’re basically just ‘topic is you’ or ‘topic is me’, which is what Chat is for. If anything, Chat is more-or-less askBeehaw right now, and we don’t have enough notable users to sustain an AMA.

    So I ticked that I’d use them, but I don’t think they’re necessary - at least not until beehaw is far, far bigger. I even suspect Chat would be almost empty if an askBeehaw was created right now.

    And a community for the Labradors among us that want to show off our favourite toys is a great idea; but not as specific as TIL. Especially since ‘TIL’ can often overlap with ‘TIFU’ (eg: “Today I learned that you can’t put standard dishsoap in a dishwasher.”)

    Something that encompasses ‘TIL’, but also ‘mildlyinteresting’, ‘YSK’, ‘lifehacks’ etc sounds neat. More of a ‘fun fact’ area where people show off pictures of cool bugs they found, or ideas they want to share. I just don’t know what you’d call it. (And the TIFU-type posts will still suit Chat.)