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Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Re: Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Post by rahimnathwani »

cygned wrote: post #38

Too bad the installation requires a dedicated Ubuntu machine. I was hoping that I could deploy it with little effort on my k8s cluster to try it out.

What is stopping you from running it in k8s? Don't you just need to create a docker file based on the Ubuntu docker image, plus whatever installation steps zulip requires?

EDIT: There seem to be some folks who have done that already:

https://github.com/galexrt/docker-zulip/blob/master/README.m...

Re: Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Post by donaldguy »

ttoinou wrote: post #31
donaldguy wrote: post #23

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Perhaps https://www.notion.so/ ?

Thanks but doesn't look like it has a team chat

It has @mentions, notifications, and the ability to have some Google-Docs style inline comment threads, so depending on the use case I'm not sure you'd totally miss it

Otherwise perhaps phacility-hosted (so cloud) Phabricator, wherein it is mostly (a less unified UI) project management system but has the realtime chat component available in https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/conpherence/

Re: Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Post by johnhenry »

pm wrote: post #30
usr1106 wrote: post #19

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In Slack threads are an annoyance. They lead to missed answers and discussions, because they are rarely used in average user groups. When they are they default to private only for the writer and appear out of the natural flow for the reader. In zulip every message belongs to a topic. (Well there is the "no topic" topic, but it shouldn't be used and even if it is it appears exactly like every other topic). So no surpr…

Appreciate the explanation. Is threading such a big deal that people can't live without it? I honestly never found it useful.

It's one of those things that I didn't realized was a big deal until I experienced the alternative -- I just signed up, tried it for less than five minutes, and I'm already sold on this over Slack.

(I'll also add that I recently spent over a year working from home where most of my interactions with other team members was through slack, so I'm fairly experienced there.)

Re: Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Post by suyash »

zestyping wrote: post #33

It's really hard to get a sense of how Zulip works without any screenshots or videos anywhere on zulip.org, just general descriptions like "the world's most productive group chat" and "email threading model." The fastest way to find out how it works is to go to https://chat.zulip.org/accounts/login/ and click "Log in with GitHub". They really need to make that path easier to find.

I was trying to learn about it as well but gave up because how bad the homepage is, no relevant information or screenshots. I'm sticking with Slack.

Re: Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading

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Post by the_new_guy_29 »

geofft wrote: post #32
pm wrote: post #30

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Appreciate the explanation. Is threading such a big deal that people can't live without it? I honestly never found it useful.

In busy channels in medium-sized companies, lack of threading is a huge pain: person A says "Hi, I'm trying to do X, how do I do this," person B says "Hi, I'm getting error message Y" 2 minutes later, someone shows up 5 minutes later and says "Have you tried installing this thing" and they were talking to B about solving Y but A tries to install it and use it for X and then everyone is confused and wastes time. Slack…

Why not to use direct messages for the example you gave ? Or even better reply to the message itself which creates semi topic under it ? Also if you have some specific topic you would like to discuss like k8s or linux there should be specific channels for that in a company. You can reply to exact message in slack. Ive been using it for over a year in a company hiring few thousend people and we had no issues you describe here...
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