We (the Recurse Center) have been using Zulip since early 2013, and it is the core of our online community. Zulip is excellent both for small teams (we use it for our team of 7) and big groups - we also run a realm with over 1,000 users posting 10s of thousands of messages monthly. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#22I mistakenly assumed there wasn't a paid offering. So it's becoming clear that the only revenue model going forward is open core model.
They have that?
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#23New to Zulip. So is it sponsored by Dropbox now after acquisition of Zulip Inc.? On the bottom of the page, it reads: Tim Abbott is the lead developer of the Zulip open source project. He previously was CTO of Ksplice and then Zulip Inc. (before it was acquired by Dropbox).
The acquisition happened 5+ years ago.
Here’s an Techcrunch article from Mar 17, 2014 [1].
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/dropbox-acquires-zulip-a-s...
Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#24Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#25New to Zulip. So is it sponsored by Dropbox now after acquisition of Zulip Inc.? On the bottom of the page, it reads: Tim Abbott is the lead developer of the Zulip open source project. He previously was CTO of Ksplice and then Zulip Inc. (before it was acquired by Dropbox).
As far as I know Dropbox has no connection to Zulip now. Zulip was initially started as a company, which was acquired by Dropbox several years ago. Dropbox open sourced the code, and Tim (one of the Zulip cofounders) later left Dropbox to focus on running Zulip as an open source project.
Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#26It's pretty cool that he included the output of git shortlog -ns in the release announcement.
I liked that too. But I prefer to hide merge commits using: git shortlog -sn --no-merges
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 very happy with this approach. Some relevant reading on our version control approach for those who might be interested:
* https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/git/overview.html
* https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/version-...
Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#27How does it compare to mattermost?
Re: Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more
#28We (the Recurse Center) have been using Zulip since early 2013, and it is the core of our online community. Zulip is excellent both for small teams (we use it for our team of 7) and big groups - we also run a realm with over 1,000 users posting 10s of thousands of messages monthly. I can't recommend it highly enough.
How do you handle high availability for Zulip? Last I looked that was a problem for it.
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#29New to Zulip. So is it sponsored by Dropbox now after acquisition of Zulip Inc.? On the bottom of the page, it reads: Tim Abbott is the lead developer of the Zulip open source project. He previously was CTO of Ksplice and then Zulip Inc. (before it was acquired by Dropbox).
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 curious.
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#30How well does the Hangouts integration work? I found it involved too many steps when using Hangouts in Slack
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.