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Big fan of Zulip. Only problem is that you don't get email notifications unless you're directly @ mentioned in a response, even if you're participating in a dis

Big fan of Zulip. Only problem is that you don't get email notifications unless you're directly @ mentioned in a response, even if you're participating in a discussion, and even if they're replying directly to you. Otherwise I find the threading approach to be a big win.

vitro 4y ago
You can set up Alert words in your personal settings and when that word appears in the chat, you will get notified as well.
- bachmeier 4y ago
  I haven't had much luck with that. Here's an example of where you run into problems: "You can do that by changing your code like this: [code] Let me know when you have the results." "Okay, but I'm going to be busy for the next few days. Will post here when it's done." {Three days later}: "Your suggestion worked! Let me know how to proceed from here." You can either keep Zulip open all the time - which makes me cringe - or you can go without any form of notification. Then a week later you decide to check back and see the message, but they forgot to @ you.
philip1209 4y ago
When I was building MoonlightWork.com, we had ~3x the DAUs on Email that we did on our website. So, I strongly believe that good email summaries are key to async comms. I'm working on a similar threaded messages project called Booklet (https://booklet.community https://booklet.community), and I think good email summaries are the key to the product. It's hard to do, but there are some cool data opportunities to improve relevancy.
tabbott 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We're planning to extend our notifications system model to let you specify a configurable policy for which topics one wants notifications for. In particular, a lot of preparatory refactoring towards supporting this has been merged over the last year, and we have a contributor planning to focus on this project over the summer. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/12309 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/12309 is probably the right issue to follow for now. My plan for today included writing a much more technical version of that issue with a specific implementation plan, before someone submitted Zulip to Hacker News :).

vitro 4y ago

You can set up Alert words in your personal settings and when that word appears in the chat, you will get notified as well.

bachmeier 4y ago
I haven't had much luck with that. Here's an example of where you run into problems: "You can do that by changing your code like this: [code] Let me know when you have the results." "Okay, but I'm going to be busy for the next few days. Will post here when it's done." {Three days later}: "Your suggestion worked! Let me know how to proceed from here." You can either keep Zulip open all the time - which makes me cringe - or you can go without any form of notification. Then a week later you decide to check back and see the message, but they forgot to @ you.

philip1209 4y ago

When I was building MoonlightWork.com, we had ~3x the DAUs on Email that we did on our website. So, I strongly believe that good email summaries are key to async comms. I'm working on a similar threaded messages project called Booklet (https://booklet.community https://booklet.community), and I think good email summaries are the key to the product. It's hard to do, but there are some cool data opportunities to improve relevancy.

tabbott 4y ago

Thanks for the feedback! We're planning to extend our notifications system model to let you specify a configurable policy for which topics one wants notifications for. In particular, a lot of preparatory refactoring towards supporting this has been merged over the last year, and we have a contributor planning to focus on this project over the summer. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/12309 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/12309 is probably the right issue to follow for now. My plan for today included writing a much more technical version of that issue with a specific implementation plan, before someone submitted Zulip to Hacker News :).