Slack usage during IETF 108, in numbers (Re: [Manycouches] IETF Slack workspace)

Theresa Enghardt <ietf@tenghardt.net> Mon, 10 August 2020 02:36 UTC

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Subject: Slack usage during IETF 108, in numbers (Re: [Manycouches] IETF Slack workspace)
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From: Theresa Enghardt <ietf@tenghardt.net>
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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