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A problem I've been thinking about for a while: let's say you want to make a custom online survey. Hosting the survey page itself is probably no big deal, but what about the backend for collecting the survey data?
You could go with something like Google Forms, but it's rather inflexible and leaves you - again - at the mercy of $BIG_TECH. Why isn't this a feature of #OSF?
@floe Hey there! We'll pass this on to the OSF team. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
@floe Wonder how practical something that compiles a base64 encoded chunk and uses “mailto:” could be. Requires no “backend”.
@nblr Hmmmm. Not a bad idea at all, although anything that requires the user to do extra actions (even just clicking "Send") will probably lower the response rate significantly...
The best I could figure out on OSF would be to upload data snippets as new versions of an existing file, and then pull all the old versions and splice them together again... but that would be super tedious, and probably also horribly ineffective on the OSF backend, if used at scale.
Is there any other way to get a non-profit, publicly hosted database as a drop-point for survey data?
(Also, the OSF auth tokens are very low granularity and would basically expose the whole account. Not good.)
@floe Hu? You could just throw a limesurvey $somewhere?
@tfiebig Sure, _I_ could, and you as well, but certainly not many people who want to create surveys, my own students ended up using Google Forms 🙄. I was hoping for some sort of public research infrastructure, like OSF.
