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by tabbott 8mo ago
The nice general chat UI and per-channel permissions for it were new in Zulip 11.0 last year: https://blog.zulip.com/2025/08/13/zulip-11-0-released/ . So probably you tested not long before this got built
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Another feature you can use in Zulip for this workflow is starred messages; just star messages that are not done, and then you can browse the starred messages view when you've got some time to follow up on things.
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by tabbott 8mo ago
You may be looking for the recent view ( https://zulip.com/help/recent-conversations ) which you can also set to be the default/home view for your account. (And administrators can set it to be the default for new us
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Hey Dheera! It's been forever. Personally, I advocate for self-hosting communications software, ideally on physical hardware that someone in your community has control over. Zulip runs great on old laptops, if you can solve the IP addr
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by tabbott 8mo ago
The advertised pricing is for workplace use where the users are on payroll; if you read the plans page carefully you'll see we have free or highly discounted pricing for other use cases, both in Cloud and self-hosted. Zulip is not desi
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Moderation of self-hosted servers is entirely the responsibility of the server's owners (and perhaps hosting providers, if it's extreme enough). We have no way to know what's happening on self-hosted servers, and it's no
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by tabbott 8mo ago
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/discussions/5163 suggests it already has a PR. I'm told ( https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/127-integrations/topi... ) that upvotin
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by tabbott 8mo ago
If you do no configuration, it'll use the public Jitsi service for video calls. So no action required unless you want a different video call provider.
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Most consumers don't know the difference between "encryption" and "end-to-end encryption". Zulip uses standard TLS encryption, where the messages are encrypted in transit, but the server has access to the messages.
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Check out https://zulip.com/for/communities/ and some of the linked case studies; they explain it better than I'll be able to in a quick comment. But the main reason is that the topics-based organization and
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Yep, it's easy: https://zulip.com/help/import-from-mattermost .
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Can someone explain to me why we should do engineering work to build features where the stated objective is to help corporations use our product without paying for it? Remember, self-hosted mobile push notifications already have a free comm
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by tabbott 8mo ago
That's a huge friends group! :) You don't need to email the sales team unless you have questions about the policy. It should be clear that "groups of friends" are eligible from the text you quoted. You just need to spend
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Regarding risk: I certainly won't blame you for feeling risk-averse given the history of the tech industry. I can tell you about some unusual choices we've intentionally made to minimize risk for our users: - We eschewed VC fundin
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by tabbott 8mo ago
I don't think we've ever charged a friend group or other non-incorporated group of people a dime for self-hosted notifications. For the community tier, you don't have to do anything up to 10 users. If your server has more tha
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by tabbott 8mo ago
You should stop by #feedback in chat.zulip.org and share your ideas! Regarding the history: Slack had very effective marketing, powered by a lot of venture capital. And HipChat was a weak product that had an embarrassing total hack, which d
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by tabbott 8mo ago
(There has always been an option to just not include message content in mobile notifications). Cryptography is not something you can do sloppily, and requires coordination between the mobile and server teams. Zulip 11.x included the protoco
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Yeah Google Meet doesn't have an API to just create a call; several people have tried to hook together the Calendar APIs to make a reasonable similar integration and failed. I assume this API omission is intentional on Google's pa
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Can you give more specific feedback -- what specifically are you looking at, and what specifically do you think contributes to it being noisy?
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by tabbott 8mo ago
The built-in Jitsi integration lets you create a voice chat call via a single button click. You can also put those call links in a channel description if you like. We do have plans to make the integration offer some additional ways to jump
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by tabbott 8mo ago
You can do everything with the keyboard, and we do write everything with screenreader accessibility and colorblindness accessibility in mind. But we don't have a dedicated accessibility tester on staff, so we're reliant on people
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Thanks so much for sharing the story!
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Awesome, feel free to start a thread in #integrations in chat.zulip.org! We'd be happy to chat about some of the things that will make your life easier to do carefully when writing a new client. The main thing regards our double-entry
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Onboarding has a thread going here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46951401 . My understanding is that Campfire hasn't been actively developed for ~10 years ( https://once.com/campfire/changelo
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by tabbott 8mo ago
I'd say so, especially if you start on desktop and have them watch the 2-minute onboarding video. We are satisfied with what we see with our internal usability studies with nontechnical users. Among customers, one reference that I can
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Sadly Zulip does not have a big marketing budget, and many reviews/tooling comparisons are paid for in some way, directly or otherwise, or are SEO spam that starts with reading other similar SEO spam. It is highly ranked on some platfo
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by tabbott 8mo ago
I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies
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by tabbott 8mo ago
I'm sure you could do some of Zulip's features on top of Matrix. But for what it's worth, as Zulip's lead developer, every time I'm looked at whether we could have built Zulip on top of Matrix, it just feels impossi
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by tabbott 8mo ago
Correction: Zulip is 100% open-source software, and has been for a decade now. (I lead the Zulip project). Zulip's protocol, which is used for client/server communication by all major clients, has extensive documentation including
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by tabbott 8mo ago
It really has been a huge disappointment the extent to which governments using open source projects for mission critical work go out of their way to avoid financially supporting them. How much better could open source alternatives to Teams

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