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Community Channel Restructuring and Public Channel Count Insights

September 28, 2026

We are restructuring some of our public channels this week. I always am VERY careful about adding channels, but I'm sort of curious how many public channels other communities have. We currently have 19 core channels, 3 pilots and then a bunch of local channels

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Zach H.
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Behind the question Alex H., what's the key issue. Are people asking for more channels? Why make more? Why eliminate some?
Alex H.
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I've decided that now is the right time to restructure and so I'm going back to best core practices as part of that process. I'm restructuring the channels for two reasons:
It's clear that there are two topic areas we aren't covering, that I think we should be
the organization, hierarchy of the channels isn't there and I've found myself struggling to communicate "core channels" to new free trialers. I want to add prefixes so that it's organized and people can easily see — this is a discussion channel, vs this is a channel for a program we run, etc.
there may also be an opportunity to eliminate a couple of channels I was just sort of looking for a benchmark of how other folks think of this these are our current ones: members.superpath.co/channels