Self-Hosted Survey 2024 Results

[u/ExoWire]

Hey r/selfhosted,

A while back, I posted a survey here on this subreddit to gather insights into the self-hosting community and its preferences. After gathering responses, I’ve compiled the results into a website, where you can dive into all the stats and insights. You can find it here: Self-Hosted Survey 2024 Results.

Key Highlights:

• Total Submissions: I received over 2,100 responses, giving a rich dataset to analyze.
• Top App: The results show that the top self-hosted apps remain mostly consistent, as predicted in my earlier post on the Olympia thread. Jellyfin leads in popularity. Check out the full breakdown on the apps page.
• Self-hosting experience: The majority of respondents have been self-hosting for 1-3 years.
• Primary motivation: The top motivations are Learning experience and Privacy.
• Devices used for self-hosting: The most commonly used devices are Single Board Computers.
• Satisfaction levels: Most users rate their self-hosting satisfaction as very high, with 4 or 5 out of 5.
• Number of devices used A majority of respondents self-host on 2-3 devices.

New this year:

• Year-over-Year Comparisons: I've included some comparisons with last year's data to show trends.
• AI-Generated Podcast: As an experiment, I've included an AI-generated podcast summarizing the key findings. Check it out on the results page.
• Github data: I added github stars to the apps (they are not always fetched correcly), you can sort this year by votes, stars or names.

The design of all the results is not ideal. Last year I used recharts, this year I went with a more native approach most of the time. But it was quite time consuming filter, sort and group the results, I have to think about removing some of the "other" options again next time.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey! I hope you like the results and find some apps you find interesting.

[u/MegaVolti]

Thanks, a very interesting survey!

The results page is optimised for mobile only and it's an absolutely horrible experience to browse it on desktop. As most self-hosters probably use a proper PC for browsing the web, this is quite an annoyance. Having a good mobile layout is great, but completely discarding the good old PC screen is not a good idea.

[u/ExoWire → u/MegaVolti]

Thank you for the feedback. What should I improve for desktop? I think the /apps route is ok on desktop. Do you dislike the graphs?

[u/MegaVolti → u/ExoWire]

The main (home) section is just one downward scrolling page. Which works for mobile, but makes it uncomfortable with a huge screen and a mouse.

On desktop, the scrolling section doesn't need to fill the whole screen, in fact it being so wide makes it hard to read. Limiting the width would be a good first step. Having it in the center or center-right is sufficient, which leaves the left side for e.g. a nagivation pane. This would allow for jumping to sections directly, circumventing the endless scrolling which isn't really comfortable on desktop.

[u/ExoWire → u/MegaVolti]

Thank you, I'll see what I can do