Re: Emacs User Survey 2020 Results

[Adrien Brochard]

> Yep, sorry for participating in off topic stuff when the center piece is
> your great work.  Thanks for doing this, really enjoyed doing the survey
> and going through the results.
>
> One thing I really find interesting and maybe troubling is how dominant
> r/emacs is.  Personally I generally enjoy r/emacs and r/orgmode, along
> with a couple other islands of humanity in the reddit cesspool (and the
> odd cool thread on other subs), but IMHO Emacs deserves a better place.
>
> I wonder if you have any insight into whether the reason r/emacs is
> represented so heavily is because most your respondents come from
> r/emacs or is it because r/emacs has become the de-facto place for Emacs
> community.

Thank you! I do have a theory formed from watching the data aggregate
over time: there's a big portion of r/emacs because the survey was
advertised there for a long time, forming a "long tail" of submissions.
The post of the survey was pinned at the top of r/emacs for 5 weeks. And
I remember that when the Hacker News post started trending, it brought
in more responses than any other sources. Just that the Hacker News post
disappeared after a day, when r/emacs stayed. We should plot aggregate
submissions over time grouped by source to confirm.