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Today I realized that I had not yet published the responses I received to my most recent blog reader survey, dated March 23rd. Not only that, but I had also published a reader survey on January 29th, and it would appear I never shared the results of that one yet, either!
So here are the results of both surveys. I’ll start with the March survey.
You guys are pretty much evenly split when it comes to Second Life content on this blog! Four of you want more Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies, and 8 of you want me to expand my coverage of SL. But 6 of you want less coverage of Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies, and 5 of you less coverage of Second Life in general. That works out to 12 yeas and 11 nays, a pretty even split. So, I will keep to the middle road, focusing my SL coverage on Steals, Deals and Freebies for now.
Five of you want to see more interviews with Sansar content creators, and another 4 want to see more coverage of Sansar products, places and events in general. (Only one person felt that I was spending too much time on Sansar.) So I will continue to do my best to provide that coverage.
As for High Fidelity, 4 wanted to see more interviews with HiFi content creators, and 5 wanted to see more coverage of High Fidelity products, places and events in general. (Again, one person wanted to see less HiFi coverage on this blog.) Therefore, I will certainly continue to cover news and events on the High Fidelity platform.
Six of you wanted to see more coverage of other social VR platforms (e.g. Sinespace, AltspaceVR, VRChat), and 2 wanted to see less coverage. So I will redouble my efforts to cover as many social VR platforms as I can.
Five people want to see less coverage of blockchain-based virtual worlds, with nobody saying that they wanted more. And frankly, I am tired of covering these worlds myself. Expect less coverage from here on in (with the only possible exception being Decentraland).
People also want to see more tutorials (4 votes) and more editorials (9 votes), so I will try to accommodate. (One person wrote in “Less editorials”, so it’s not universal.)
Finally, here is a selection of write-in comments from both the January and March reader surveys:
- “You do what you want; it’s all good.”
- “More coverage of lesser known creators, instead of the same top ones.”
- “Your editorials are the best part of the blog. I’d love to see more of them!”
- “VRChat [has] 100X the active users of HiFi and Sansar. Active Worlds has more too.”
- “Ryan doesn’t take himself too seriously, and is honest in his opinions.”
- “The ‘freebie’ section of the blog is the most enjoyable to read.”
- “Sorry, I have no interest (and rather detest) SL fashion/shopping posts.”
- “Some rare unresearched positions I’ve seen, they seem to be influenced by bias.”
- “Nothing against Ryan, but the blockchain/cryptocurrency stuff makes my eyes glaze over now.”
- “Currently, the blog doesn’t include any interviews with Sansar content creators. It would be a great addition to the blog if readers could get a peek inside the creative minds of the people contributing to the platform.”
- “More emphasis on virtual worlds, less emphasis on virtual reality.”
- “More focus on VR.”
- “I think the balance of content is about right currently.”
- “I think it’s good, I come here often.”
Thank you to everybody who gave feedback!
