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by tabbott 8y ago
This is a common confusion from folks who haven't really used Zulip. You don't need to think about the subject for every message, because 95% of messages you send are replying to an existing message/conversation, and you don
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by tabbott 8y ago
Probably one of our users can better to attest to this than I can, but it's really easy for someone with that background to maintain. For installation, we've put a ton of effort over the years into making all the commands Just Wo
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by tabbott 8y ago
We actually are working on a one-click Digital Ocean installer right now! See https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/11622 for the code; it should be in their marketplace in a few weeks. That said, if you make j
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by tabbott 8y ago
So, philosophically, as a former MIT cryptography grad student who spent a lot of time in Ron Rivest's office, I'm unwilling to offer a cryptographic guarantee like "E2E encryption" if it doesn't actually provide th
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Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat(blog.zulip.org)
310 points by tabbott 8y ago|96 comments
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip | https://zulipchat.com/ | REMOTE or in San Francisco | Senior Mobile Engineer | Full-time | SF Zulip is the leading 100% free and open source alternative to Slack. Our users love Zulip because of our unique UX with t
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip | https://zulipchat.com/ | REMOTE or in San Francisco | Senior Mobile Engineer | Full-time | SF Zulip is the leading 100% free and open source alternative to Slack. Our users love Zulip because of our unique UX with t
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by tabbott 8y ago
Yikes, I'm not sure how "essentially all" ever got in there; it should have been "the majority of". And even with that edit, our practice is, where possible, to cite sources, and while there's a lot of anecdot
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by tabbott 8y ago
When did you look? https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/mobile-pus... has been available for over a year, so self-hosted has the same notifications experience as Zulip Cloud.
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by tabbott 8y ago
Yeah, the front-page documentation focuses pretty heavily on "you should setup email" because it helps folks in a normal environment successfully setup Zulip quickly and reliably. I'm not sure whether this use case is common
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by tabbott 8y ago
We support this, it's just enough of a corner case that it's not well documented. If you don't care about missed-message emails, you can install the Docker image (easiest to setup when offline), and then use https:/&#x
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by tabbott 8y ago
I agree that the "more topics" thing takes up too much vertical space after just one click to see deeper history. We actually just had a discussion of it last week; the issue created from that is here: https://github.co
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by tabbott 8y ago
Right, in my view it's important that every message have a topic/thread. The reason is that you spend most of your time/effort in a busy team chat tool consuming other people's messages, and that flow is a lot more effi
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip founder here; I should add that Zulip hosting is free for open source projects: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/ . A bunch of other cool open source projects use it, including Python Core, parts of the
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by tabbott 8y ago
The answer is pretty similar to that for Rocket.Chat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18401587 With the addition that Mattermost is open core, not fully open source.
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by tabbott 8y ago
Yes. The default GitHub-recommended workflow of having contributors do `git pull` to integrate their changes an easily result in a confusing spaghetti monster history even if the contributor only has 1-2 commits that don't merge confl
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip founder here; I'm curious why you think that? Here's our thinking. Topics within a stream are ordered by the time of the most recent message. We keep the complete history, both of messages and topics, because it's use
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip founder here. It's definitely possible to run a Zulip server with essentially no downtime. E.g. the main zulipchat.com service has had approximately 10 user-facing outages with a median duration of 5-10 minutes over the last 5 y
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by tabbott 8y ago
It's pretty simple: There's a button you can click at the bottom of the compose box that generates a new Hangouts video chat link; once oyu send your message, users can click the link to join.
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by tabbott 8y ago
Yikes, we haven't updated my blog bio in a while. Fixed to remove the confusing reference to Dropbox (which no longer has any formal involvement in Zulip); http://zulipchat.com/history has further context for anyone c
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip has a rebase-based development workflow and doesn't use merge commits because in my experience, it produces a much more readable commit history (which is really important for understanding historical changes). We've been ve
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Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more(blog.zulip.org)
4 points by tabbott 8y ago|0 comments
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by tabbott 8y ago
A poorly-kept secret in Silicon Valley is that many "AI startups" started over the last few years are actually using humans, with a long-term plan to slowly decrease the amount of work the humans do using algorithms (generally bas
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by tabbott 8y ago
FYI, you can now configure Google Hangouts as what the "video chat" button does in "Organization settings".
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by tabbott 8y ago
You can export your data in a nice JSON format; our exports are complete enough that you could fully migrate your organization from one Zulip server to another using them. And if you don't want to host the data with someone else, you c
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by tabbott 8y ago
Zulip CEO also here. For folks migrating from HipChat, we've decided to match the current price you're paying for HipChat for Zulip enterprise support (and we'll also provide a high-quality migration path similar to what we
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by tabbott 8y ago
(I lead the Zulip project.) If you talk to people who use Zulip, they will tell you that a better information architecture actually does make a big difference for communicating effectively. See, for example: * https://twitter.co
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by tabbott 8y ago
We (the Zulip core community) recently adopted the main third-party Docker implementation for Zulip (now https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip ), and have been hard at work on cleaning it up and making its documentation
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by tabbott 8y ago
It's also about the language. See, for example, https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers
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by tabbott 8y ago
I agree it's theoretically possible to write a secure project in PHP, but it's very difficult, especially if you're hiring people like crazy. If you divide the amount they've paid out in bounties by the number of bountie

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