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  1. Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? in ~talk

    Bauke
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    Some intermediate stats for those interested! In the first 24 hours since the survey opened there have been 218 responses! 28 year olds are in the lead, followed closely by 32 and 36 year olds. We...

    Some intermediate stats for those interested!

    • In the first 24 hours since the survey opened there have been 218 responses!
    • 28 year olds are in the lead, followed closely by 32 and 36 year olds.
    • We have a 115 year old in our midst... ;) I won't speak to the validity of the claim. :P
    • Millennials account for the majority of respondents at 60%, followed up by Gen Z at 27% and Gen X at 11%. With a few Baby Boomers sprinkled in at the end at 2%.

    Thank you all for your participation so far! <3

    6 votes

  2. Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? in ~talk

    Bauke
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    It's mostly to have some data to "distinguish" responses. If there's a couple responses from the same IP address I'm not that bothered, but if there's like 20% of the total responses from the same...

    It's mostly to have some data to "distinguish" responses. If there's a couple responses from the same IP address I'm not that bothered, but if there's like 20% of the total responses from the same IP then maybe that means the survey won't be as accurate.

    It's purely a data quality type of thing, maybe there's other ways that can be done but for now IP address is simple.

    9 votes

  3. Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? in ~talk

    Bauke
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    Yes, anyone can answer the surveys. In my original feeler topic about the surveys I described a potential way to "authenticate" responses in a privacy-conscious way, but to keep it simple to start...

    Yes, anyone can answer the surveys.

    In my original feeler topic about the surveys I described a potential way to "authenticate" responses in a privacy-conscious way, but to keep it simple to start with I haven't added that option for now. It may get added or it may not, it'll depend on how things go. :)

    14 votes

  4. Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? in ~talk

    Bauke
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    It's my website and I'm the only person with access. I think I have a decent enough reputation on Tildes to be considered a trustworthy person. I'm not versed enough in the GDPR to know whether it...
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    It's my website and I'm the only person with access. I think I have a decent enough reputation on Tildes to be considered a trustworthy person. I'm not versed enough in the GDPR to know whether it applies to a website like this run by an individual for purely fun purposes.

    But for full clarity the only information that is saved is the response to the survey question along with a timestamp of when (both of which will become publicly available after the survey closes). And the client's IP address that submitted the survey (which will never be made public and will be deleted after the survey is closed), just to be on the safe side to have something to prevent malicious use if that ever happens.

    All data is stored on a Hetzner server in Falkenstein, Germany.

    If you want to contact me you can do here on Tildes or email bauke@tildes.community :)

    28 votes

  5. Tildes Survey #1: How old are you?

    ~talk Ask (survey)
    Submit your response here! Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/how-old-are-you-1 This survey closes on April 26, 2026 at 10:00 UTC (also Tildes' birthday :D) The results will be...

    Submit your response here!

    • Direct link: https://survey.tildes.community/form/how-old-are-you-1
    • This survey closes on April 26, 2026 at 10:00 UTC (also Tildes' birthday :D)
    • The results will be published on April 26 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 UTC 2026-04-26 10:00 UTC
    What country do you live in? 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC 2026-05-03 10:00 UTC
    What 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!

    46 votes

  6. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Here's a preliminary schedule for questions I'm thinking would be interesting to start out with and get a feel for how it would all work. Question Survey opens Survey closes How old are you?...

    Here's a preliminary schedule for questions I'm thinking would be interesting to start out with and get a feel for how it would all work.

    Question Survey opens Survey closes
    How old are you? 2026-04-19 18:00 UTC 2026-04-26 10:00 UTC
    What country do you live in? 2026-04-26 18:00 UTC 2026-05-03 10:00 UTC
    What 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

    The idea would be that every Sunday at 18:00 UTC a survey is opened and responses can start to be collected. That would then give an entire week to discuss the next survey and prepare everything else still needed like visualizations for the running survey or the backend for the next one, etc. The current survey would then be closed on the following Sunday at 10:00 UTC and its results would be published.

    What do you think?

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Thank you kfwyre! You very concisely put into words what I was going for with this idea and what I was thinking :D And I agree we could have categories of questions (fun ones, demographics ones,...

    Thank you kfwyre! You very concisely put into words what I was going for with this idea and what I was thinking :D

    And I agree we could have categories of questions (fun ones, demographics ones, interpretive ones, ...) and switch them around week to week/month to month.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    I spent a little more time setting up Metabase for data visualizations so you can now also see the responses so far for the submitted questions. :D ->...

    I spent a little more time setting up Metabase for data visualizations so you can now also see the responses so far for the submitted questions. :D

    -> https://viz.survey.tildes.community/public/dashboard/5fdf224d-5023-448e-9a4d-0304c526f001

    The data sync isn't instantaneous between Metabase and n8n yet so there'll be some delay from when you submit a question and it shows up in the dashboard, but it should eventually end up there!

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Since the topic has a good amount of votes I quickly set up a server and a form to collect questions for anyone that has ideas! :) -> https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-question

    Since the topic has a good amount of votes I quickly set up a server and a form to collect questions for anyone that has ideas! :)

    -> https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-question

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    It's a very valid point! :D And it's always good to keep in mind not to over-complicate things if we don't need to

    It's a very valid point! :D And it's always good to keep in mind not to over-complicate things if we don't need to

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys? in ~tildes

    Bauke
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    Ah yes I should have added that would be optional (if added at all).

    Ah yes I should have added that would be optional (if added at all).

    3 votes

  12. Is there any interest in regular short Tildes surveys?

    ~tildes Ask
    I've been thinking about the demographics surveys recently and how they usually draw a good reception, but are difficult to compile in a privacy-minded way and finally visualize the data. I think...

    I've been thinking about the demographics surveys recently and how they usually draw a good reception, but are difficult to compile in a privacy-minded way and finally visualize the data. I think the 2024 survey never ended up getting its results published?

    So I thought maybe instead of one big yearly survey we could organize smaller weekly or monthly surveys that ask one or a couple questions at a time. And then while the current survey is running the question+answers for the next survey could be plannedy out. And the questions could be about anything and not just demographics related things.

    In terms of technical setup I've been using a self-hosted n8n instance for a while and with tinkering around with it I've come up with a decent proof of concept to make these surveys happen via n8n's Form nodes. This makes it so all the data is in our own control and it's just a matter of building out any visualizations we may want.

    And at the end of a survey the data could be anonymized and published so any further analysis can be done by whoever wants to.

    One other thing I've come up with is a way to "authenticate" responses so we can know when a response was made by a real Tildes user. In the survey flow the server can generate a UUID and give it to the user to put in their profile bio. Then we scrape the user's bio and check if that UUID is present and now we know that yes, this is a real user. And then the UUID can be removed again from the user's bio (so it can't be linked back to them). This would also enable us to not have to save usernames at all (yay privacy). Edit: this would be entirely optional if it were to be added. There would be no requirements to fill in the survey unless we start seeing a bunch of spam or bogus responses.

    What do you Tildoes think? That's what we settled on right? Is this something you'd be interested in?

    Edit: Since the topic has a good amount of votes I quickly set up a server and a form to collect questions for anyone that has ideas! :)

    -> https://survey.tildes.community/form/submit-your-question

    34 votes

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  15. Comment on The Dear Hunter - Marauders (2026) in ~music

    Bauke
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    Also somehow missed this earlier single from last month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0SYShRPJc Sunya coming out March 20 :):):)

    Also somehow missed this earlier single from last month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd0SYShRPJc

    Sunya coming out March 20 :):):)

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Yorushika (ヨルシカ) - Plover (2026) in ~music

    Bauke
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    Yorushika doesn't miss :D Also love whenever MORIE does their music videos

    Yorushika doesn't miss :D

    Also love whenever MORIE does their music videos

    2 votes