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Something I didn't see before, is that a bunch of open source communities seems to starting to use Zulip now as well. I've only seen it in a "remote software co
by capableweb 4y ago
Something I didn't see before, is that a bunch of open source communities seems to starting to use Zulip now as well. I've only seen it in a "remote software company" context before.
Here are some case studies from Zulip themselves about specific organizations, how they moved to Zulip and how they are using it:
- https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/ https://zulip.com/case-studies/rust/
- https://zulip.com/case-studies/asciidoctor/ https://zulip.com/case-studies/asciidoctor/
- https://zulip.com/case-studies/lean/ https://zulip.com/case-studies/lean/
I know a bunch of the Rust people hang around on HN, maybe they can fill out any details or tell more about how it's going so far with using Zulip :)
- ChrisSD 4y agoIt does take a bit of getting used to. Zulip is kind of a cross between chat and a forum. However, once I did get used to it I think it's been great. Organizing chat into defined topics is super useful for following discussions you're interested in, filtering out those you aren't and for keeping conversations going across time zones. It's more discoverable than chat but not as rigid as an actual forum. I feel it works well once the learning curve has been surmounted.
- tiffanyh 4y agoIt's most akin to email list serv.
- tabbott 4y agoZulip has long been popular with open source projects (https://zulip.com/for/open-source/ https://zulip.com/for/open-source/), as well as a bunch of other non-business use cases (teaching, research, conferences, etc.). One reason folks might feel like it's new is that we recently reworked the Zulip website to discuss these other use cases for which Zulip is popular. We have always had a practice of prioritizing feedback and feature requests from open source communities, because improving the productivity of the global open source community is an important part of our mission as an organization. One of the largest such investments has been the native public access option (no account required!) that we released earlier this month: https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/ https://blog.zulip.com/2022/05/05/public-access-option/ (I lead the Zulip project)
- KennyBlanken 4y agoPlease for the love of his noodliness, stop passing notifications in plaintext to push messaging providers. This five year old ticket is embarrassing: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6954 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6954
- stavros 4y agoI hadn't realized this before this thread, but the nice thing about using corporate-sponsored OSS is that I can put a developer to work submitting a PR to my tools if I care strongly enough about the missing feature.