Conduct a survey among users

[okineadev]

I think it would be very effective to ask users what icons they want to see, not everyone can have GitHub, so not everyone can or wants to create an issue in this repository.

So I thought of this plan: When the user goes to vscode, a one-time notification from the Material Icon Theme extension arrives and asks "What icons do you want us to add?"

And the first thing to think about is the number of users who will receive this notification, in my opinion, the circle of surveyed users should be limited to every third, this can be solved very simply - generate a random number between 1 and 3, and if the number is 3, then send a notification

As I said, not everyone can have GitHub account, so you need to create a survey form on a special platform (I don't know yet which one) so that you can take the survey without registration.

And if the user clicked "Yes" on the notification, he is redirected to the survey page

[okineadev]

You can make an even smaller circle of respondents, because there are a lot of users of this extension

[PKief]

I understand your suggestion, but I would like to avoid such surveys. I myself usually find it annoying when I go to a website and am confronted with a survey. It annoys more users than it helps. I would like to avoid that. GitHub is currently the pivotal point for the further development of the extension and that includes requests for icons. A GitHub account is therefore mandatory.

It is important to me that this extension remains free of such notifications so that users can simply go about their business without being actively prompted to take part in a survey.

And if someone wants new icons, they have to create a GitHub account to create an issue (it's free and simply requires an email address). In my opinion, everything else is too much effort for us as maintainers to check a survey platform to see which icons have been requested.

[mallowigi]

Oh boy I don't recommend doing this. You'll get a lot of requests, most of them completely stupid or straight out trolls. Not to mention you'll be nagging users who don't really care about this at all.

You can add a new menu for "feature requests" or "icon requests" instead. But honestly I won't recommend it.

[okineadev]

I understand your suggestion, but I would like to avoid such surveys. I myself usually find it annoying when I go to a website and am confronted with a survey

There are such "non-intrusive surveys", for example, I saw this on stackoverflow, there is not a big window that pops up with a request to take a survey, but just an unobtrusive banner that does not distract and at the same time offers to participate in the survey

It is important to me that this extension remains free of such notifications so that users can simply go about their business without being actively prompted to take part in a survey.

Understand.

And if someone wants new icons, they have to create a GitHub account to create an issue (it's free and simply requires an email address). In my opinion, everything else is too much effort for us as maintainers to check a survey platform to see which icons have been requested.

it's free and simply

simply

In fact, registration is quite difficult, really, because a few months ago I registered an account for a colleague (he could not figure it all out himself), and I f****ng spent half an hour on passing the captcha.

Okay, well then, so I need to somehow invite users to help

I think it would be great to add a **Suggest an icon** • **Contributing** text with links to the README.md

[okineadev]

Oh boy I don't recommend doing this. You'll get a lot of requests, most of them completely stupid or straight out trolls.

What did you think? It is generally the norm if there are trolls and spammers in the polls, it is quite obvious

Secondly, in my opinion, the number of trolls/fools is much less among users of vscode (programmers)