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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentI agree on future surveys needing more clarification on exactly the answers I'm looking for and planning on my end for how to turn the data into something presentable. I do appreciate you and...I agree on future surveys needing more clarification on exactly the answers I'm looking for and planning on my end for how to turn the data into something presentable. I do appreciate you and ilyag bringing these things up because I wouldn't have known otherwise, the feedback is very useful!
Re: the languages survey, that one I won't normalize to countries and regions since indeed there's not a good way to do it as you mention and it also contains multiple languages per person so that'd be tricky to put on a map too.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke (edited )Link ParentThanks for testing it! I'm not seeing any submissions on the test form so it must be something client-side preventing the submit from going through... Does anything appear in the browser console?...Thanks for testing it! I'm not seeing any submissions on the test form so it must be something client-side preventing the submit from going through...
Does anything appear in the browser console? You can open that with Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox or Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome and then try submitting. I'm expecting it'll either be a JavaScript issue from n8n's Form functionality or a networking problem where it's blocking the submission for whatever reason.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke (edited )Link ParentCan you try submit this form with some text and reply what you submitted (so I know it's you :P)? https://survey.tildes.community/form/test-submit With that test submit info I can check if your...Can you try submit this form with some text and reply what you submitted (so I know it's you :P)? https://survey.tildes.community/form/test-submit
With that test submit info I can check if your submit came through for the languages survey yet the response page possibly didn't get shown.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentMy sincere apologies! I'm very much learning as I go with these surveys and how to best handle the data and present the results in a good way, so some mistakes are expected. If you'd like me to...My sincere apologies!
I'm very much learning as I go with these surveys and how to best handle the data and present the results in a good way, so some mistakes are expected. If you'd like me to make corrections I'm happy to do so, let me know here or via private message and I'll get right on it.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #4: What languages can you speak? in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentI haven't figured out how I want to do it yet and this week was busier than usual for me. :PI haven't figured out how I want to do it yet and this week was busier than usual for me. :P
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Comment on Tildes Survey #4: What languages can you speak? in ~talk
Bauke LinkFor those of you paying attention to the schedule, next week's "Vote for the next 4 surveys" survey will use the questions you Tildenizens submitted here. So if you haven't yet submitted any...For those of you paying attention to the schedule, next week's "Vote for the next 4 surveys" survey will use the questions you Tildenizens submitted here. So if you haven't yet submitted any questions and you want to leave your mark, make sure to do so before next Sunday. ;)
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Comment on Tildes Survey #4: What languages can you speak? in ~talk
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Tildes Survey #4: What languages can you speak?
Submit your response here! Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-languages-can-you-speak-4 This survey closes on May 17, 2026 at 10:00 UTC The results will be published on May 17...
Submit your response here!
- Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-languages-can-you-speak-4
- This survey closes on May 17, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
- The results will be published on May 17 shortly after the survey has closed. I'll edit this topic and post a comment about it!
The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:
Question Survey opens Survey closes How old are you? 2026-04-19 18:00 UTC2026-04-26 10:00 UTCWhat country do you live in? 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC2026-05-03 10:00 UTCWhat country were you born in? 2026-05-03 18:00 UTC2026-05-10 10:00 UTCWhat languages can you speak? 2026-05-10 18:00 UTC 2026-05-17 10:00 UTC Surveys retrospective + Vote for the next 4 surveys 2026-05-17 18:00 UTC 2026-05-24 10:00 UTC Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.
Thank you all for participating!
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke LinkThe survey has been closed and the results are in! Thank you to all the 174 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the visualizations and a rough comparison with the previous survey!...The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 174 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the visualizations and a rough comparison with the previous survey! Here's a few quick stats:
- 41 distinct countries are represented!
- Spread across the following continents:
- America at 45.7%
- Europe at 39.9%
- Asia at 8.7%
- Oceania at 5.8%
- With the top 5 countries of most responses:
- United States at 36.2%
- United Kingdom at 8.6%
- Canada at 6.9%
- France at 4.0%
- Australia at 3.4%
- And the results for whether people were living in the country they were born in:
- Yes at 74.7%
- No at 23.0%
- No answer at 2.3%
- View the full results dashboard here
- If you have any ideas for visualizations or stats I can add I'd love to hear them!
- ZIP download of the data
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentHmm, well if you ever figure it out let me know! I'd love to make it work for you if it's something I can change on the site.Hmm, well if you ever figure it out let me know! I'd love to make it work for you if it's something I can change on the site.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke LinkQuick reminder for anyone still wanting to participate, the survey will close in less than 24 hours!Quick reminder for anyone still wanting to participate, the survey will close in less than 24 hours!
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Comment on How computationally expensive is filtering and ignoring? in ~tildes
Bauke (edited )LinkOther comments point out some great things, here's some Tildes specific details: The way Tildes ignores work is by doing a left join on the Topic and TopicIgnore tables and then filtering that no...- Exemplary
Other comments point out some great things, here's some Tildes specific details:
The way Tildes ignores work is by doing a left join on the Topic and TopicIgnore tables and then filtering that no ignore exists. So it's two primary keys being joined in the database, basically.
If we take this topic's base 36 ID "1u2o" and convert it to base 10 we can know there are at least 85632 topics in the database. Even in the worst case that you're somehow showing all topics at once on a page I don't expect any databases these days to struggle with joining fewer than 100k records. Especially not PostgreSQL which is what Tildes uses.
Tags are more complex but even they are optimized well by using PostgreSQL's ltree data type for all of its functionality, so I can't imagine this being that expensive either.
There's no need to worry about the computation need of this at all. :P Ignore and filter to your heart's content!
Relevant code snippets:
- Topic's primary key
- TopicIgnore's primary key
- Where the left join happens
- Filtering topic ignore == None
- Example searching for tags using PostgreSQL ltree, I'm not sure if this does the filtering-away-topics but I just want to show that PostgreSQL does all the heavy lifting. Almost like Deimos knew what he was doing when he set this up ;)
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentDefinitely going to leave it as free text fields so I don't have to come up with a list of possible answers. :D Then anyone can enter their answers like "English and French" for example.Definitely going to leave it as free text fields so I don't have to come up with a list of possible answers. :D Then anyone can enter their answers like "English and French" for example.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentAnywhere is fine to discuss the surveys! It probably helps the most to keep the discussion in whatever the current running survey is so the topic keeps getting bumped and more people see it. :P...Anywhere is fine to discuss the surveys! It probably helps the most to keep the discussion in whatever the current running survey is so the topic keeps getting bumped and more people see it. :P
You bring up a good point with the proficiency though. Maybe a good way to structure the survey would be something like this:
- What is your native language?
- What other languages are you fluent in? (Optional)
- What other languages are you familiar with but not fluent in? (Optional)
I feel this would allow us to have enough detail in the responses to give a useful result without making it overly complicated, what do you think?
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Comment on Steam Controller 2 sold out in ~games
Bauke LinkAbout 20 minutes ago I was getting the yellow error message saying the payment processor was having trouble but just now I managed to buy one. :)About 20 minutes ago I was getting the yellow error message saying the payment processor was having trouble but just now I managed to buy one. :)
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Comment on Tildes Survey #2: What country do you live in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentThe three unknowns were: "Svenborgia" (fictional country I think) "Mars: the country and planet of the superior species" And this one: "I remember the outside locale more as a self-sustaining...The three unknowns were:
- "Svenborgia" (fictional country I think)
- "Mars: the country and planet of the superior species"
- And this one: "I remember the outside locale more as a self-sustaining automated sequence than an actual place, a field of I/O, dense data highways that lined the sky in geometric patterns, running through a vasculature of black cables far beyond the horizon."
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke Link ParentThat's odd, is the main survey page not loading or is it that after you've submitted a response the page isn't loading? Does this one work? https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-questionThat's odd, is the main survey page not loading or is it that after you've submitted a response the page isn't loading?
Does this one work? https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-question
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
Bauke LinkStealing an idea from kfwyre. ;) If you'd like to be notified when future surveys open and close with the results, let me know here or via a private message and I'll @-mention you. :)Stealing an idea from kfwyre. ;)
If you'd like to be notified when future surveys open and close with the results, let me know here or via a private message and I'll
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Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results)
Original post Submit your response here! Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-country-were-you-born-in-3 This survey closes on May 10, 2026 at 10:00 UTC The results will be...
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Submit your response here!
- Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/what-country-were-you-born-in-3
- This survey closes on May 10, 2026 at 10:00 UTC
- The results will be published on May 10 shortly after the survey has closed. I'll edit this topic and post a comment about it!
The current plans for questions that will be asked in the coming weeks are as follows:
Question Survey opens Survey closes How old are you? 2026-04-19 18:00 UTC2026-04-26 10:00 UTCWhat country do you live in? 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC2026-05-03 10:00 UTCWhat country were you born in? 2026-05-03 18:00 UTC 2026-05-10 10:00 UTC What languages can you speak? 2026-05-10 18:00 UTC 2026-05-17 10:00 UTC Please submit your ideas for questions here! Even if they've been submitted already by someone else. All input is valuable! You can view all submitted questions on this dashboard.
Thank you all for participating!
The survey has been closed and the results are in!
Thank you to all the 174 people that responded! Check out the dashboard for the visualizations and a rough comparison with the previous survey! Here's a few quick stats:
- 41 distinct countries are represented!
- Spread across the following continents:
- America at 45.7%
- Europe at 39.9%
- Asia at 8.7%
- Oceania at 5.8%
- With the top 5 countries of most responses:
- United States at 36.2%
- United Kingdom at 8.6%
- Canada at 6.9%
- France at 4.0%
- Australia at 3.4%
- And the results for whether people were living in the country they were born in:
- Yes at 74.7%
- No at 23.0%
- No answer at 2.3%
- View the full results dashboard here
- If you have any ideas for vizualisations or stats I can add I'd love to hear them!
- ZIP download of the data
Thank you all again for participating! I hope to see you in the next survey. :)
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I do see that one come in on the server!
I just tried Brave myself on Android but that worked so I'm thinking it may be something Brave iOS specific. I'll see if I can figure it out more but that's good to know a different browser does work!