# š Take the Discourse Community survey!
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863 "2025-08-12T16:10:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/1 "2025-08-12T16:10:37Z")
Over the next few months, weāre going to make some improvements here in the Discourse Community (meta). We need your experience, expertise, and ideas to guide us! If you have a few minutes, please answer a few quick questions. Your responses will be kept anonymous unless you decide to share your email address.
_ **Edit: Survey is now closed. Thanks everyone who participated!** _ š»
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/2 "2025-08-12T16:20:40Z")
Some questions were about Meta, but all the time the used term was Discourse community. That was a bit confusing every now and then.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/3 "2025-08-12T16:24:41Z")
Thanks for taking the survey so quickly! Weāre also inviting people to answer the survey who are not on meta already and may find it confusing to see references to meta. So we defined it in first sentence of the intro and then refer to āDiscourse communityā throughout.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/6 "2025-08-12T18:33:11Z")
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### Author:  [@schneeland](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schneeland)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/7 "2025-08-12T22:42:18Z")
The one question that confused me a bit was about the place where I go first for help with Discourse. I assume that meant aside from Meta?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/8 "2025-08-12T22:44:53Z")
Yes, the survey is about the Discourse Community (meta) so we thought the framing as āWhere else do you presently go to get help and learn about Discourse?ā was clear enough.
Thanks for taking the survey! š¤
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### Author:  [@eisammy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eisammy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/10 "2025-08-12T23:41:04Z")
Done! You guys, are the best!
I chose āotherā and ā[Ask Discourse](https://ask.discourse.com)ā I had used a lot this tool creating less new topics
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/11 "2025-08-12T23:54:41Z")
@tobiaseigen Is this form anonymous?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/12 "2025-08-13T00:00:49Z")
Yes, indeed it is anonymous unless you provide your email address for followup. If you prefer you can complete the survey straight from the typeform website at [https://form.typeform.com/to/RXdVvdco](https://form.typeform.com/to/RXdVvdco).
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### Author:  [@Rubi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rubi)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/16 "2025-08-13T02:31:48Z")
Survey completed. Nice idea to engage the community like this.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/17 "2025-08-13T03:28:37Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Weāre also inviting people to answer the survey who are not on meta
Can you give a direct link to the survey? The embed in your OP isnāt loading for me.
EDIT: OK, it finally loaded.
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### Author:  [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/18 "2025-08-13T08:19:22Z")
Very welcome survey, but I would have preferred giving my handle here rather than disclosing my email to a third party. š
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### Author:  [@MachineScholar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MachineScholar)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/19 "2025-08-13T08:28:00Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> unless you provide your email address for followup
Do I reply directly to the typeform notification email or is the team going to reach out separately for followup?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/20 "2025-08-13T12:41:35Z")
> [@one1](#):
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> Can you give a direct link to the survey? The embed in your OP isnāt loading for me.
Thanks for pointing this out! I just noticed the embed not loading correctly for me this morning, so I changed the OP to include the intro text directly in the post with a link to typeform. That feels better to me anyway.
> [@hellekin](#):
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> I would have preferred giving my handle here rather than disclosing my email to a third party. š
Thatās a good point. Sorry about that! We created the survey so it can be answered by people who are not already members, so asking for the email address seemed the best idea. I updated this question as follows:
> Share your email address if you are interested in us following up with you about your answers or to talk about opportunities to contribute. If you prefer to keep your answers anonymous, you can also email us at [moderators@discourse.org](mailto:moderators@discourse.org) or contact moderators via personal message on the forum.
> [@MachineScholar](#):
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> Do I reply directly to the typeform notification email or is the team going to reach out separately for followup?
Either way! If you are inspired now after taking the survey and have more to say, you can reply immediately to the typeform notification and it will reach moderators here on the forum. Weāll also follow up with everyone who provides their email address over the coming weeks.
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/21 "2025-08-15T12:14:41Z")
I was sad not to see a Mastodon or generic fediverse logo there at the bottom. I follow `@Discourse@mastodon.social` and especially with CDCK supporting the ActivityPub plugin I would have hoped to have seen it called out.
Included in my response was the fact that probably because I was an early adopter of the ActivityPub plugin on meta itself, there is something wrong in the database that causes federation not to work for me even though it works for other folks, so I canāt see meta posts on my own Mastodon account. Angus couldnāt replicate the problem on his own install, and doesnāt have database access on meta to debug the problem, so as far as I can tell Iām out of luck despite being an active promoter of Discourse on the fediverse. š ~~(I really wish someone at CDCK would `rails c` and fix that.)~~ Thanks for the fix! ā¤
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/25 "2025-08-15T15:18:13Z")
> [@mcdanlj](#):
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> I was sad not to see a Mastodon or generic fediverse logo there at the bottom.
Thanks for that comment! I was bummed that that option is not available as well in typeform. You canāt even have html there. Iāre removed the buttons now and added text to suggest folks share the survey with their friends. We want to get as many people who are interested in Discourse to have a chance to give input.
We are going to be sharing the survey ourselves via our social media channels so when you see our posts, please feel very free to share it further! And thank you! š¤
I also submitted a support request to typeform to allow more control over which social sharing buttons are shown. I could upgrade and link to a page on our own website where we can show whatever we want, but that feels like overkill to me at this stage.
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/26 "2025-08-15T15:57:59Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> I was bummed that that option is not available as well in typeform. You canāt even have html there.
Oh interesting! Appreciate that color, and thanks for following up with them! ā¤
Some _meta_ on the choice of typeform: It looked to me like it had good a11y with explicit text directing how to respond by keyboard. I didnāt think to look for aria labels, but it was sure nice to see obviously intentional keyboard support at least. So thatās a š from me!
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/27 "2025-08-15T22:43:14Z")
> What is one Discourse related challenge you would like to solve by this time next year?
I donāt understand this question, can you give examples?
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### Author:  [@schneeland](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schneeland)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/28 "2025-08-15T22:57:38Z")
> [@Canapin](#):
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> I donāt understand this question, can you give examples?
I assume the team will clarify further, but the way I read it, it would be stuff like āmigrate a community to Discourseā, āgrow community by x%ā, āimprove onboarding experience for new usersā, etc.
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### Author:  [@Hooksmith](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hooksmith)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/take-the-discourse-community-survey/375863/30 "2025-08-17T11:17:14Z")
Hey, itās great that youāre asking for feedback. Some feedback however: it was a bit surprising to find a survey for a different community on our forum. Would it be possible to find a more appropriate way to distribute future ones? I expected to find new feature announcement of the Discourse software when clicking this notification, not to find surveys for the Discourse meta community.
Also, this notification seems to re-occur multiple times (twice in the past week). Could that be looked into?
Thank you in advance!
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