Re: The state of the website survey

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 02:32:37PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 4:39 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 11/20/19 6:11 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > The survey on the website continues to be neglected, to the point of it
> looking
> > a bit silly.  The current survey was published in October 2018, and
> refers to
> > v11.  Since January 2014 we've posted only 7 surveys in total.
> >
> > I have a vague memory of the state of the survey being discussed before,
> but I
> > fail to find the reference in the archives now.  If memory serves me
> right, the
> > outcome was "let's try and revive it, and else remove it".
> >
> > IMO the survey isn't helping us in its current state, adds work that
> noone
> > seems keen on doing and makes the website look dated.  Should we remove
> it?
>
> If someone wants to help keep it up, I'm happy for it to stay up.
>
> Otherwise, I'm equally happy to drop (hide) it.
>
> IMV while it is a neat little interactive widget we have on the website,
> I'm not sure if it is providing any value to our users at this point,
> even if it were kept up to date.
>
>
> Yeah, I doubt there is much value even if we do keep it maintained. And right
> now when it's not being maintained, it adds zero or even negative value.
>
> +1 for dropping it.

I agree that even if we updated it, no one has any use for the results.
Has it been removed yet? I don't see any pgweb commit about it.

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