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User survey: What version of M are you using?

Posted 6 years ago

Hello everyone,

I created a survey to try to determine what versions of Mathematica people are most commonly using. Please fill it out, and forward the survey to any friends or colleagues who also use Mathematica.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmiNCQH5mBKYWAf9V6DzcuidsRRqX3LOg2_C6Hr0eKDxunog/viewform

Motivation:

This information will be useful for package authors to decide what versions of Mathematica to support. For example, my MaTeX and IGraph/M packages still support Mathematica 10.0. I would like to know how many users are left out if I make e.g. M11.1 the minimum requirement. I believe other package authors would find these statistics useful too. Similar statistics are available e.g. for Android versions.

If enough people respond, results will be posted in this thread in a couple of weeks.

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát
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POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát
Posted 6 years ago

Thanks for setting this up. Is there any way this could also be posted somewhere on Meta on the Mathematica StackExchange? That might get a slightly larger user base/less skewed towards the Wolfram fans, even if it will still be biased toward long-term/power users.

POSTED BY: b3m2a1 ​ 

M.SE has a lot more traffic than W|C, but unfortunately it's not suitable for posting surveys. Meta has much less traffic than the main site. Mostly it is the regulars who visit. So the sample will certainly be biased. This is why I originally chose W|C to post the survey.

For the second round, it seems like a good idea to also advertise on Meta, so I did.

Now idea: What might be better is placing an actual community ad (didn't think of this before). That will show on the main M.SE site!

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát

Link in OP is dead.

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg

Link in OP is dead.

I just tried it (also in a private browsing session), and the link seems to work. Could you try again please?

Is anyone else having trouble opening the survey page?

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát

Yes, the link is working now for me, too.

POSTED BY: Murray Eisenberg

This is the third and final bump before posting the final results. Currently I have 41 responses.

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát

I have received 25 responses so far. Hopefully, this reply will bump the post to the front page so that more people who are not daily visitors of Wolfram Community will have the chance to see it and fill it (otherwise the sample would be quite biased towards regulars of this site).

POSTED BY: Szabolcs Horvát
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