indeed a great move, the part I don't get is that why dropbox acquired it then opensource it? what's the logic behind this...
Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sad as it may be, it's pretty clear at this point that XMPP won't be the communication protocol of the future. Everyone who ever seriously worked on it seem to have come out of the experience a broken man. Setting it up requires pretty deep knowledge and the promises of compatibility with most XMPP servers break down pretty fast unless you know which extensions to support. All these problems are fixable but I don't s…
>Setting it up requires pretty deep knowledge Not even remotely true! Prosody on Debian works out of the box, including federation. You just have to configure the domain name. It's not hard to set up an XMPP server. It's hard to set up Ejabberd. Ejabberd is not the only XMPP server. Prosody is very easy to set up. Honestly, people, think before you speak...
I've been using OpenFire, no problem there either.
I had never heard of Prosody, any major difference cons/pros between the two?
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right by why maintain the chat app? Why not just buy slack.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted for legitimate questions.
Same. It's kind of sad. Apparently questioning the business reason behind decisions isn't appreciated. I personally find them interesting.
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#174indeed a great move, the part I don't get is that why dropbox acquired it then opensource it? what's the logic behind this...
I have the same questions too. Acquihire?
Also, how is zulip compare to slack in term of features, stability, pro/con?
I tried search youtube for any zulip demo/screencast, can't find anything - very strange.
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#176I haven't yet tried Zulip's threading model, but I can certainly say I'm not pleased with Slack's.
It can be very frustrating to try and trace a conversation backwards in a crowded Slack channel. I haven't used IRC in a while, but at least my client had a feature to toggle highlighting on a back-and-forth conversation, but that wasn't perfect.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean the slack product!
BradRuderman you are conflating two different things that are not necessarily related: (1) How Dropbox chooses to satisfy internal requirements/demand for a group chat solution (2) Why/whether Dropbox should have acquired/acqhired the Zulip team
Yea my point of the comment was (1). I didn't even know it was an acquisition. I am shutting up to prevent loosing any more minimal reputation.
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#178Side note: Please STOP using tiny font weights. Text becomes ridiculously hard/painful to read. There's no reason to use a font-weight of 200 (or anything less than 500) on body text, save that for the headlines. http://i.imgur.com/r7a794n.png
I'd be curious to see how the screenshot below looks on your system.
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#179Commoditize the complement: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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#180Nice, it looks like an excellent Django app to study.