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Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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Post by SwellJoe »

hanley wrote: post #27
SwellJoe wrote: post #10

I was just about to try out Mattermost for our company communications. It integrates with a few things including gitlab, but Zulip seems to have a larger number of integration options, which is awesome. Anybody tried both and have thoughts on them? I still prefer to host my own infrastructure, and I want to be able to archive and categorize a discussion (after it's happened) for searchability, but a couple of our peo…

HipChat supports XMPP [0], and you can host it yourself. Not sure about the guy that "doesn't do chat", he might be out of luck. Time to adapt. [0] https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...

He writes more code than everyone else in the company combined. He does whatever he wants.

Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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themodelplumber wrote: post #9
simonswords82 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yep - very similar but with an emphasis on self hosting.

Would nice if it were easier to self-host. Requiring Ubuntu 14.04 with 2GB RAM minimum...not terrible, but could point at a lot of work to be done to broaden the appeal. (Edit: And of course, a thank you to Dropbox for releasing it, this does look like a nice little setup)

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Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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Post by finnn »

SwellJoe wrote: post #10

I was just about to try out Mattermost for our company communications. It integrates with a few things including gitlab, but Zulip seems to have a larger number of integration options, which is awesome. Anybody tried both and have thoughts on them? I still prefer to host my own infrastructure, and I want to be able to archive and categorize a discussion (after it's happened) for searchability, but a couple of our peo…

Kaiwa[1] seems like it's supposed to provide this slack-style group chat web interface thingy, but uses XMPP as the backend. I've played with it a little, not the worst.

[1]http://getkaiwa.com/

Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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Post by on_ »

Smart play. If they can lock people in to their free chat client they can get a stronger foothold into enterprise and servicing smaller start-up/SMB companies. This is what Paul Graham talks about building an e-mail client, just call it a todo list.

This is a storage application front-end. Slack and hipchat charge the money for secure storage, file transfer and data. That is Dropbox's competitive advantage and a great way to break into the market discreetly.

Client looks cool, I will be downloading it.

Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

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Post by jedrek »

peruvian wrote: post #15
tbingmann wrote: post #8

Slack, Zulip, this feels like we are back in 1999, when the internet was divided by ICQ, AOL Instant Messanger, Windows Live Messanger, and Yahoo Messanger. (Instant/Live was a plus back then). And the only innovation over IRC was a backlog and buddy list. I wonder when the Trillian of Slack+Zulip will come out. I hope Trillian (which still exists) is already working on it.

What annoys me about stuff like Slack is that it's misused. It's made for small teams but I've been 10k people open source projects use it instead of IRC. Of course, it was laggy and they eventually couldn't afford it.

Obfuscating usernames with real names and no ignore are also massive downsides.
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