It's pretty cool that anyone can just create a channel at will. But an unfortunate side effect is a slew of channels to choose from. Many of these channels died, or failed to take off to begin with. Example: #composition has only ~15 posts, all in late 2016. This does not really add meaningful value, but does create a lot of noise. It is quite cumbersome to cull through all the channels in search of relevant discussions. It is also disheartening if you find a channel you think you want to join (for example if you think #composition is an interesting topic and want to hear other's thoughts on it), only to discover an abandoned empty space. It is untenable to think you could use "View Channel" to periodically check in on some channels without joining them, because you must dig through the paginated list each time to find them. Seems to me it would be really nice if we could find some way to begin removing dead channels. The vision in my head would probably include something like the following: • One-off event channels should be archived after some reasonable time period post-event. So Clojure Days can have an ongoing channel if they want. But specifically Clojure Days 2019 is a one-off. So #dcd19, being clearly outdated, should be archived. • Library support channels should be occasionally scanned for likely, ... shall we just say, deprecation. If a library seems to have no recent maintenance updates, and nobody is asking questions about it, we can contact the author and ask "Is this still supported?" No sense having a channel for an unsupported lib, so archive or maybe even delete in some cases. • Add a channel for #other-library-support. After attempting to contact authors for permission, merge low-traffic library channels into this channel. Hopefully we could find a way to tag where they came from, while copying them over? Delete such channels after they are merged. Encourage authors expecting low traction to use this channel for support instead of creating a new one, until such time their project surprisingly takes off. • Gather up any other remaining obviously dead channels, and merge them into some sort of #dead-channels archive. I would not expect any of these suggestions to be hard rules that need "enforcement". Instead they are intended as guidelines for trimming the fat over time. And I have no idea who would be expected to do the work involved (particularly since I believe merging must be done manually?). But if this could somehow be accomplished, the Channel List would be much more welcoming; and it would be way easier to find active channels and/or channels directly relevant to a specific question.

you may find it helpful to use https://clojurians.slack.com/stats#channels and sort by total membership to find more active channels

I've found it to be good to establish naming strategies in other slacks I've admin'ed, like geo-LOCATION, seems like similar with lib- conf- whatever could theoretically help, although maybe we're too far down the road :)