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by tabbott 5y ago
(Post author here) I don't think most people need to read everything they receive, but in my role as the project leader of a large open source community, essentially every conversation in chat.zulip.org is potentially relevant for me,
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by tabbott 5y ago
Yeah, "Open core" doesn't have a great definition. Certainly I agree this is a pretty contained feature, and I shouldn't have written "switching ... to an open core model" given the evidence in this thread. But
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by tabbott 5y ago
Interesting, I hadn't appreciated that Matrix was switching from fully open source to an open core model.
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by tabbott 6y ago
I'm really upset that this happened to you folks, and it's scary, because incident could just as easily have happened to us at Zulip (or any other OSS app that connects to self-hosted servers!). I expect we'll never get a use
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by tabbott 6y ago
Slack and all its clones are based on the chat room model, which structurally has the problem described in this article (and many others for productivity, such as wasting attention). Fundamentally, the chatroom model pioneered by IRC is poo
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by tabbott 6y ago
Yeah, this was my reaction as well. The reason I found Caliphate interesting was not the details of Chaudhry's story, which I experienced as were portrayed as dubious and in need of verification throughout; I certainly finished the po
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by tabbott 6y ago
Zulip's founder here. (I should write a blog post on this topic.) The structural reason is that we're intentionally not taking VC funding, which does more or less inevitable lead to that outcome. Less structural but just as impor
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by tabbott 6y ago
Can you share what server this was (here or in chat.zulip.org)? Essentially every bit of feedback we get on performance is that Zulip is much snappier than Slack. Given that you mention a big public server, it's likely caused by an is
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by tabbott 6y ago
Zulip as a company is extremely different a massively-VC-funded-and-then-go-public company like Slack: * 100% of the software we write is FOSS. * We intentionally haven't taken VC funding despite plenty of opportunity to do so, to ens
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by tabbott 6y ago
I don't think it's possible for this sort of individual, opt-in action to be material to the climate problem; problems at this scale can only be solved by government action. If Stripe raises $30M/year from this program, it&#
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by tabbott 6y ago
Right, lobbying is super valuable for a company whose business is in a legally questionable position on the boundary of the highly regulated banking industry. This "apolitical" move would be a compelling choice if their only goal
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by tabbott 6y ago
Remember that this is a press release, not independent journalism. This press release tries hard to position it as "people left because of the severance was really good" because that narrative is in Coinbase's interest. Tha
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by tabbott 6y ago
I've been using the Altwork ( https://altwork.com/ ) desk for this purpose since January, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants this sort of thing. It was expensive (~$7K), but I needed it due to a medical condi
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by tabbott 6y ago
They have magnet stickers you attach to the back of any keyboard (or mouse) and it'll work. My keyboard is kinda heavy so it needed like 10 magnets attached to it, but it's completely stable. That said, for lying down, you really
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by tabbott 6y ago
I attended TJHSST from 1999-2003. TJ does have a serious diversity program, but I think it's important that readers understand just how special TJ was. Because of TJ, I became a top participant in some America's most prestigious
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by tabbott 6y ago
I agree Django's migration system has a few unfortunate quirks (most notably the help-text-change-migrations), but it's also worked great for Zulip across over 300 database migrations, and I wouldn't recommend anyone do their
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by tabbott 6y ago
We've been using semgrep for Zulip's python codebase for the last few months; here's our configuration: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/tools/semgrep.yml I really appreciat
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by tabbott 6y ago
I run an open source team chat product (Zulip) and I have no love for Slack ( https://zulip.com/why-zulip/ ). But I also think Microsoft's behavior in the team chat market is definitely anticompetitive. * Many busi
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by tabbott 6y ago
We don't at present have an official policy on it, but we'd certainly be open to creating one. (And of course one can always self-host). What is Slack's adjusted pricing in India/Asia? I don't see it advertised on
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by tabbott 6y ago
FWIW we have been seeing a lot of larger communities that previously were deadset on Slack because "everyone knows it" importing their data from Slack in the last few months. Part of the reason is that Zulip's topics make it
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by tabbott 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! One of our goals as a project is to have a "teaching-quality" codebase, so this is no surprise. I think this is incredibly important and something every community open source project should strive for.
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by tabbott 6y ago
A big benefit of the organization provided by every message being in a topic is that it makes finding this more efficient. E.g. if you remember that Steve made a joke about donuts in the conversation, you can search for messages sent by St
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by tabbott 6y ago
Also, new in this release: BigBlueButton (another OSS video/call project). This release removes Google Hangouts support (as Google killed it and rebranded it to Google Meet). Unfortunately, the Google Meet rebrand came with removing t
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by tabbott 6y ago
I notice you mention a pixel phone; are you by any change using mobile Chrome? I think this is https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/14943 , which sadly didn't get fixed for this release but is being wor
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by tabbott 6y ago
> yes, this is self-hosted. I can't check the version, but I think it was recently updated Well, 3.0 comes out tomorrow (hopefully) so your administrators may want to upgrade once it does :). > the "drafts" feature took
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by tabbott 6y ago
> Point in time backups isn't trivial either Have you tried our built-in backups tool? See https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/export-and... > How do I connect to existing databases?
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by tabbott 6y ago
Our 3.0 release, coming out in a few days, has some major design improvements. Visual design continues to be a major focus area for us. -Zulip lead developer
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by tabbott 6y ago
I'd be curious to hear more about these concerns, because they're largely not things others have reported. Would you be up for dropping by chat.zulip.org to provide more detail? A few initial thoughts: * Notification emails for
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by tabbott 6y ago
As other folks have mentioned, Zulip has a number of cross-server integrations with both the Zulip protocol and other protocols like XMPP. There's a few we document here as well as Matterbridge: * https://zulipchat.com&#x2F

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