Hi all, As people have asked about a report/summary on Slack usage during IETF 108, I'd like to provide some numbers, which I looked at via the Slack analytics feature. I think these numbers nicely supplement the anecdotal evidence/summaries that people have already provided: According to its analytics page, the IETF Slack workspace currently has 218 members, 111 of which have been "weekly active members" during the last 30 days. "Active" means that they've posted at least one message and/or read at least one direct message or channel. (Not sure how exactly Slack defines "weekly" here, but read on for more detailed stats.) The daily activity statistics say that, outside of IETF 108, there's a baseline of 20-30 daily active members (i.e., reading at least one channel/message or posting something), and up to ~10 members are posting messages. The week before IETF 108, we see a ramp-up to up to 80 active members a day (Thursday), however, there's still just about ~10 members actually posting something on each day. During the weekend before IETF 108, activity drops to the baseline. Then, during IETF week, each day roughly 70-90 members were active, with 20-30 members posting each day. The peaks were on Monday and Friday. On Saturday and Sunday after IETF, activity dropped back to the baseline. Counting unique messages, the baseline is at roughly 10-20 messages sent each day, on some days less (down to some days with 0 messages). During IETF week, there was a peak on Monday (170 messages), a drop to roughly 30-70 messages, and then another peak on Friday (435 messages). Most messages were sent in public channels (roughly 60-90% depending on the day), but there was some usage of direct/private messages between members (roughly 10-35% depending on the day), and private channels (up to 20% depending on the day). The most popular channels were #general, with the most numbers and most views. As the name says, there were some general discussions, e.g., about IETF 108 (e.g., when do rooms open, when is a good time to find people on gather.town), about tooling and the Slack itself, and announcements of the existence of other channels. Other popular channels include the #chat-tools and #codesprint channels, where some discussion/collaboration happened, as well as social channels, such as #random for more informal chatter in general, as well as #108newcomers and #systers for particular groups. These channels were used to complement hallway chats at gather.town (e.g., when/where to find them), to answer questions, and for introductions, particularly among the newcomers. Each of the #hotrfc108-* channels was only joined by 5 to 16 members, and only 0 - 4 messages were sent in each channel. To summarize, there wasn't a ton of usage, but it appears that there were some use cases for Slack. Best, Theresa
