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

Post by ciupicri » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 1:55 PM UTC

morgancmartin wrote: post #109

ciupicri wrote: post #81

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That's what I did the first time. It keeps asking me for an email address to sign up OR sign up with Google or GitHub.

So I had something similar happen to me. I started out at the _ sign in _ page, I attempted to sign in with google, it remarked that I don't have an account and sent me to the _ sign up _ page that looked very similar to the sign in page, and from there, I was able to create an account via my google account.

    1. https://chat.zulip.org/register/
    2. "Sign up with GitHub"
    3. "Authorize zulip"
    4. Got redirected to "Sign up for Zulip" (https://chat.zulip.org/complete/github/?redirect_state=...)
    5. Went to https://chat.zulip.org/ and
    6. got redirected to https://chat.zulip.org/login/
    7. "Login with GitHub"
    8. "Zulip account not found."

Post by dsr_ » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 2:02 PM UTC

saghul wrote: post #99

ciupicri wrote: post #80

The install procedure [1] looks like bad a joke. > You’ll need an Ubuntu system that satisfies the installation requirements. So if I'm using RHEL, Fedora, Arch or any other Linux distribution, tough luck. If they're supporting only Ubuntu, they could have at least created some deb packages. There is an install script, but no details about what's going on under the hood or explanations of how to do it manually; what…

I see Docker / your container tech of choice as a solution to this. Your server can still run whatever distro, and a specific app can run a different one. This can be annoying from the sysadmin perspective, since there are now multiple operating systems to take care of, but at the same time, the developer may not be able to produce builds for all distros their users would like. Ubuntu is a fine choice IMHO, given the…

Post by zerkten » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

ciupicri wrote: post #110

detaro wrote: post #105

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Then you go to documentation for a more manual installation and adjust it to your tastes.

Problem is there doesn't seem to be much documentation at a quick glance. At least for Zulip.

Post by icc97 » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 2:54 PM UTC

tabbott wrote: post #68

icc97 wrote: post #54

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Minor niggle - but I don't understand you and the github readme point to readthedocs rather than just 'show me the money' of https://chat.zulip.org/ Perhaps you want to give more context, but I did nothing on the readthedocs page other than look for the link.

We used to do that, but it turns out that having the Internet visit your chat community without any briefing isn't the best plan. Linking to the ReadTheDocs page has helped a lot in making sure people joining the community have some sense as to what to expect (e.g. that it's at times running a super beta version of Zulip, or that people are doing actual work, that we have a code of conduct, and you should send your t…

Post by tabbott » Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 3:09 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #90

tabbott wrote: post #60

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We're definitely planning to provide a slick explanation on zulipchat.com. Using chat.zulip.org is helpful, especially if you visit a day later and read the message history; since you really only experience Zulip's magic properly when catching up on a bunch of unread messages (the `n` hotkey in particular is super great). That said, https://zulipchat.com/features has a screenshot; and https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/…

Given that it's free software, it might be worth making the install instructions a little bit more visible. At least then people can whip up a VM and try it on their own. The instructions[0] look straight forward, though I haven't tried it. Just a quick question... How difficult is it to build, install and run from source? I guess I'm slightly concerned about the "it expects to have the whole machine" in the requirem…