looks like a great codebase, both django and ios!
Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
41–50 of 323 posts
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#42I 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…
Zulip has beta-quality integrations for mirroring content with a Jabber or IRC server (also we have one for Zephyr but that's a lot less popular). Check out bots/irc-mirror.py and bots/jabber_mirror.py. It's a bit complicated to setup right now though -- feel free to ping the Zulip development mailing list for help if you're interested.
(Patches welcome!)
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
in this case, correlation might actually mean causation :)
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#44Looks wonderful, but am I the only one that thinks the recommended 4 GB server is a lot?
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#45Smart 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 grea…
For others who didn't get the PG reference:
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#46Looks wonderful, but am I the only one that thinks the recommended 4 GB server is a lot?
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#47Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#48Slack, 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.
Wow, out of all the things that may have occurred to me over the last couple years of using Slack, "this feels like 1999" is definitely not one of them.
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#49Why did Dropbox build this? Why didn't they just use Slack? What were the features slack was missing or were there other business reasons?
They didn't build it; they acquired the company that built it.
Oh, I'm interested in the business decision behind that. For example why didn't they just buy (not acquire) the slack product. What were the reasons to host it in-house and manage it themselves.
Re: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip
#50Would be really interesting if one could program a secure way for the individually hosted servers to hook up with each other and verify the correctness of one another while at the same time keeping the messages secure (I guess bitcoins come to mind here..). Up until something like this happens I guess centralized social networks are going to rule the roost since the value of networks is almost always in their reach/s…
Why would reinventing jabber federation require bitcoin?