Tips for hosting large events?

[rishabh]

Hey Laura,

@laurawinegirl

We’ve been hosting virtual wine tastings on our community for the last two years - we all convene on a topic at a specific time, and write tasting notes/share chats and banter about the wine (written, rather than doing it via video or anything like that).

We love the fact that you’re focusing on the writing instead of quickly jumping to audio / video

@laurawinegirl

This is obviously great, but it means the conversation moves incredibly quickly (almost impossible to follow) and also our community has had some crashing/connectivity issues.

About the first problem, @pfaffman’s advice is solid. Having 150 people simultaneously on a Zoom call would probably be much much worse…I found a nice little generator you could use for the splitting:

Random Team Generator — Split a list into random groups

Besides that, another thing you could do is dedicate one topic to all off-topic / chatty conversations and have separate ones for the serious reviewing to have some kind of separation.

For the performance issues, there shouldn’t really be problems with 150 users but do you think your server could be under-powered to handle that load? Maybe it would help to move your site to a server closer to most participants? If you see any error messages during the crashing / connectivity issues, let us know!