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My guess is most of the major chat players handle this pretty easily -- it's a non-starter for many potential users if you don't. Zulip stores all data indefinitely (including mess…

In case anyone runs into this in the future, Zulip has a few features that could help: * You can set a message retention policy that will delete each message after N days. (We're b…

yes, it is. https://zulipchat.com/help/keyboard-shortcuts has the list of keyboard shortcuts.

https://zulipchat.com/help/moderating-open-organizations has some of that info. Zulip doesn't have IP-level banning or moderation tools (at least not at the organization admin leve…

I believe it's the second :). (All replies from a channel go into a never ending thread that goes on forever.)

yup, Zulip is fully open source. I believe Mattermost is actually open core.

I agree that on the benchmark of time-to-send-a-message, Zulip is slightly slower than Slack, which is in turn slower than just putting the whole company in a WhatsApp group. But t…

Got it, thanks for the concrete examples. I think the short answer is that there is some learning curve to using Zulip, but once that's done, sending messages like that takes essen…

Slack and Zulip are implementing pretty different communication models. In Slack, most messages are a single line, and are very real-time. E.g. if a channel is getting 100 messages…

Zulip supports itself by selling hosting (at zulipchat.com) and support contracts for on-prem installations. Everything is a part of the open source project; no proprietary add-ons…

> when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s. haha, that's a good way to put it. We've put in a lot of work over the last few mo…

I work on Zulip, so will only attempt an answer for that. Zulip is designed to scale team chat past when you're getting 1-200 messages a day. With an IRC- or Slack-like communicati…

Thanks for the feedback suyash. We're working on landing pages; weren't expecting a hacker news launch today :).

You'll want to sign up first, at https://chat.zulip.org/register/ .

Hosting and enterprise support: https://zulipchat.com/plans

Zulip is fully FOSS. The project makes money from hosting and enterprise support.

yes, the server admin can.

Zulip | Designer | San Francisco | ONSITE (preferred) + REMOTE | Full time or part time Zulip is an open source team chat product, with dozens of weekly active contributors, and an…