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what does this accomplish that a self-hosted matrix/synapse setup doesn't? the synapse daemon is not overly complicated to set up in a non-federated configurat
by walrus01 5y ago
what does this accomplish that a self-hosted matrix/synapse setup doesn't?
the synapse daemon is not overly complicated to set up in a non-federated configuration.
the official matrix client is pretty good, there are also a wide choice of other matrix protocol clients people can use to connect.
- dsr_ 5y agoThe UI is nicer than any of the matrix clients that I've seen. If you don't need federation, Zulip is just nicer to use for nontech people.
- maccam94 5y agoThe main differentiator of Zulip IMO is the threading model. Instead of chat rooms with multiple un-separated concurrent conversations taking place, every message* must start a topic or be placed in one (topics are like the subject line in an email). You can still look at the room and see all of the topics at once, but you can also focus in on a single topic. And it remembers your read progress at a per-topic level, so it's quite feasible to catch up on chats asynchronously. Basically Zulip brings the best things about mailing lists to chat. *: you can now turn off the topic requirement, in which case messages go into a "no topic" topic. But not using topics kind of defeats the purpose of using Zulip IMO.
- DoItToMe81 5y agoZulip has many features that no Matrix client currently has.