List popular slack channels and descriptions on site

[willa75]

Issue Type

• Feature Request

Description

I think it would be a good idea to have a list somewhere on the site of popular slack channels @daredevil82 (Ovv) suggested only showing channels with over x amount of people in them.

[m1yag1]

I wonder how complex it would be to show the most active channels, underneath that we could have a drop down or something that shows them all if anyone is interested and wants a quick list.

[mattrasband]

I'd love for us to be able to move to the pyslackers/slack-sansio library - perhaps this could be the dogfood for it?

[ovv]

sir-bot-a-lot query once per day the slack api to get the list of channels (it's used for the topics monitoring). Maybe the website can leverage that.

[mattrasband]

I was looking more into this and realized that the /purpose and /topic are user provided, it's probably best to not show these on the site in the off change that a user may updated either in poor taste before we sync and then show it until the next scheduled sync.

Closing for now, but please feel free to re-open if this seems unreasonable.

[mattrasband]

Also, what defines popular? The easy to find metric is member count, however popularity is probably weighted based on member count and messages per time period, which requires a bit more.

[ovv]

I think showing a list of available channels with their topics is already a nice step for helping people navigate the slack