“You & anvi’o”Ħ6% of those who filled the survey declared that they use anvi’o somewhat frequently, while 20% mentioned that they were currently using anvi’o for a project, but they wouldn’t consider themselves as someone who uses anvi’o frequently.ģ7% published at least one research producit in which anvi’o was helpful to them. The following subsections will share some key information the survey revealed. Those who took the survey answered a number of questions to help us understand if they anvi’o community thought that an online communication for a software platform was really necessary, if they found Slack beneficial, if a change in communication platform was warranted given the recent changes in Slack, if Discord was a good alternative, and so on. I know how busy each one of us are, and it means a lot to have feedback from the community. The survey resultsįirst, I’m very thankful to those who took the time to respond to the survey. If you have more interesting things to do, this may be a good moment to leave this page.

These were the important announcements, and the rest of this blog post will simply summarize people’s responses to the survey for posterity. It will not be pain-free, but I’m sure we will overcome this change altogether :) We will help everyone migrate to the new environment with announcements, so there is nothing you need to do at this time, and we will archive the Slack history and make it available for those who would like to search the archives. This means the current Slack group will be obsolete over time, and all the pointers on our web page will direct new users to the anvi’o Discord server. TL DR version of this blog post is the following: based on the survey results is that we are going to migrate anvi’o online community to Discord. So I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago titled “ Future of anvi’o online communication: Part I”, and asked the members of anvi’o community to fill out a survey to help us reach a decision. While the anvi’o community heavily uses it, recent limitations implemented in Slack pushed us to carefully consider what platform we should use going forward to solve our online communication needs as a community.

“Your critical input regarding our future”.

“You & communication platforms in general”.

Slack online