We have a ton of great stuff in our archives. A wiki is a good place to surface the gems. I don't know what that should look like, but here's a very rudimentary early attempt.
There's often overlap between these lists, and I only list a thread in one list in these situations. (But I include stats where they could show up in multiple lists)
Some of these (particularly early) threads are chopped up across multiple threads when someone posted up top rather than in a comment. Feels like the sort of thing we could clean up in a wiki.
Threads with the most unique commenters
2019-10: Trying to raise funding. (33 commenters; 255 comments; 92 reactions)
2021-09: Renaming the community. (29 commenters; 244 comments)
2024-08: What problem are people trying to attack? (22 commenters)
2020-07: Code of conduct enforcement. (21 commenters)
2020-07: Gendered language discussion. (19 commenters)
2020-06: "Always bet on text." (19 commenters)
2019-06: Note taking/Personal knowledge management (19 commenters)
2024-07: Moving away from Slack by building a new forum for ourselves. (18 commenters)
2020-09: Is there any hope for end-user programming when programmers themselves don't use programming to solve their own problems? (18 commenters; 153 comments)
2019-03: Simplifying version control (18 commenters)
2020-11: Future of Coding vs Handmade Network; what we can learn from each other, opportunities for building bridges (17 commenters)
2020-08: Is data-phobia a real thing? (17 commenters)
Threads with the most comments
2019-01: Learning about Slack threads (189 comments)
2019-12: To what extent is this true: "As soon as a live programming environment becomes useful enough that people actually want to use it (spreadsheets, live coding in performing arts, debuggers, javascript REPLs etc) it's no longer considered live programming." (121 comments)
2020-07: Channel reorg (118 comments)
2024-06: The Slack apocalypse (110 comments)
2018-12: Code visualization and Moldable development (109 comments)
2020-08: Question for everyone who's making a desktop visual lang: what do you use for rendering and why? (102 comments)
2020-02: Feedback for Alivecoding: Live coding with persistent expressions (102 comments)
2019-08: Interoperability between Onex and ValOS (100 comments)
Top posts with the most reactions
2019-09: The Whole Code Catalog (82 reactions)
2023-10: Amy Ko's introduction (45 reactions)
2021-02: Ivan Reese adapting to taking over stewardship of FoC (42 reactions)
2023-08: FoC workshop: Samuel Timbó's Unit (42 reactions)
2019-04: Steve Krouse's conversation with Alan Kay (40 reactions)
2024-02: Mariano Guerra's secret (39 reactions)
2023-09: Lu Wilson giving a real-life cake to Ivan Reese (39 reactions)
2019-12: Steve Krouse handing the torch of FoC over to Ivan Reese (39 reactions)
2023-09: Devine Lu Linvega's introduction (37 reactions)
2018-09: Survey of how people work on FoC (funded, self-funded, part-time, etc.) (35 reactions)