Was being able to see who joins or leaves a channel turned off on this slack?

I don't have a problem with this, just wondering if this is the case

i think that was disabled on the entire slack. apparently on some clients it doesn't aggregate them and can lead to a annoying large amount of notifications

yeah, I'm kinda happy about this, but I missed the special event of #babashka crossing 500 people :)

I’ll miss welcoming people to the #calva channel. I won’t miss seeing people leave the channel.

Yup, some people were complaining about the “noise” from those messages and, as Dan says, on some clients it really is a nuisance. It’s a shame Slack doesn’t allow per-channel control over something like that.

If the number of complaints about their absence outweighs the number of complaints about their presence, we might turn the join/leave messages back on.

I'm surprised it's not a client-side knob

allow me to pre-register a complaint about join/leave messages :) ton of noise for very little value imo

The only value I got from them as an Admin was making it easier to spot spammers — who typically join a Slack and then immediately post something off-topic — but everyone is signing up via my invite link at the moment (will expire only once it hits 2,000 new signups) so SlackBot lets me know as each new person joins overall (mildly annoying since Slack then has a red dot and an unread message about 5-10 times a day, just from that).

A friendly PSA from your Admins: unsolicited Direct Messages about commercial ventures is strictly prohibited here and will lead to immediate account deactivation. Please take a screenshot of any such activity and either report it here or reach out to one of the Admin team about it (we’re all listed at the bottom of the Code of Conduct document — in the repo linked from the channel topic).

Clueless “Anna” from “Texas-based” AAIT (and whose timezone showed as India) has been deactivated and their messages deleted.

“Anna” had contacted me via LinkedIn as Shawn Andersen — from AAIT in India — claiming to be looking for candidates for a Clojure role, which is how they got the http://clojurians.net link, so… sorry about that! So, caution to anyone being contacted on LinkedIn by AAIT!