Why did daily active people drop in Slack?
The Slack help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: Daily active people counts only people who read or sent a message in a channel or direct message that day, as Slack's help pages define it, so a day when fewer people read or post can show a lower count.
What causes it?
Daily active people counts only people who read or sent a message in a channel or direct message that day, as Slack's help pages define it, so a day when fewer people read or post can show a lower count.
In the Slack help:
Number of people who have read or sent a message in at least one channel or direct message over the current day
Understand the data in your Slack analytics dashboard, read 2026-11-12.When an owner or admin deactivates accounts, those people are signed out everywhere and cannot sign back in, as Slack's help pages explain, so they can no longer read or send messages there.
In the Slack help:
They’ll be removed from all channels, signed out of your workspace(s) on all devices, and unable to sign back in.
Deactivate a member's account, read 2026-11-12.If your plan includes guests, owners and admins can give a guest a time limit, and Slack's help pages say the guest can then be deactivated automatically, so a guest's access can end on a set date without anyone acting that day.
In the Slack help:
Automatically deactivate a guest after a certain amount of time
Understand guest roles in Slack, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
If you can see member analytics, look at each member's last active date to find who stopped reading or posting. Slack's help pages say this date is shown only for members active in the last 90 days.
In the Slack help:
Date the member last read or sent a message in at least one channel or direct message
Understand the data in your Slack analytics dashboard, read 2026-11-12.Where several workspaces sit in one organization, an org owner or admin can open the list of deactivated members to see whether accounts were deactivated around the day the count fell.
In the Slack help:
Select View Deactivated Members in the top right.
Reactivate a member's account, read 2026-11-12.
How does Slack work with Feder?
- Connect Slack to Feder and it joins your Visits apps.
- When you connect Slack, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Slack, one of your Visits apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Slack.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why are Slack's active members fewer than total members?Slack
- Why did weekly active people jump in Slack?Slack
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Slack help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.