@freakboy3742 @webology I think the #Rstats and #Rladies community has had some success with online events, @yabellini was (and probably is) passionate about them when I met her (online of course) during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

My experience has always been like yours, I have never experienced a "cool" online conference... closest was #PyDataGlobal 2020-2021 with that RPG-like map. I think there's people out there that know how to run these things.