The biggest problem I’ve noticed is that the amount of “Members” is displayed in clients, but so many rooms have a lot of “Members” but no real activity. Which is what this tracker attempts to solve by looking at actual chat messages and timestamps.
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artifex@piefed.social 4 days ago
This is very cool. Have you uncovered any hidden gems with it yet (eg genuinely active nice communities, etc). My brief experience with matrix left me feeling that either a) either all of the activity on matrix was for matrix-related things, or b) it was just impossible to actually find active communities.
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yea I have, and that’s exactly why I created this. Finding them without this tool would have been really annoying. Here’s a screenshot of the top 12h rooms:
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Right now they are pretty diverse. The two most active I recommend starting off in if you’re English speaking are #envs_lounge:matrix.org and #anime:matrix.org
This is the one I made matrix.to/#/#all-topics:matrix.org before I created the activity tracker and realized there were several others.
hector@lemmy.today 3 days ago
So there is nothing about like niche hobbies on there? Like gourmet mushroom cultivation, or brewing I take it?
jaykrown@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There’s nothing stopping you from creating a room for that and inviting people.