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Where do I find a list of employers using zulip?
Gotta love the frontier labs annihilating open source projects left and right either by acquiring them directly or stealing the teams.
As we do our best to explain in the post: The Zulip project is very much not being annihilated. There are 220 people from all over the world who have contributed 20 or more commits to Zulip, and thousands more who've contributed code, volunteer translations, ideas, thoughtful questions, and in so many other ways. Personally, I find remarks like this to be extremely disrespectful to all of those wonderful people and t…
Gotta love the frontier labs annihilating open source projects left and right either by acquiring them directly or stealing the teams.
I appreciate that in this case, the developers who were hired away considered it their responsibility to keep the project and company going independently of themselves, and ensuring it could continue to employ the ~dozen developers who are staying with it to maintain and develop the project. That seems substantially better than the usual approach (of either an acquihire leading to an immediate shutdown or an acquisit…
Is the content visible to search engines yet? That was the deal-breaker when I looked into it for handling an open source community. No discoverability
most others you need to go an extra step to make the messages public, like mailing list archives.
there is this: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive
i haven't used it, just saying that solutions exist.
and with the constant hammering of sites by AI bots you probably don't want them hitting a dynamic message interface but prefer a static copy.
> It’s hard these days to feel confident that a company whose product you love won’t yield to commercial pressure and start selling your data, putting in ads, or otherwise violating your trust. It’s been a challenge to convincingly make the case that this won’t happen to Zulip, especially to folks who might not have time to investigate deeply. The Zulip Foundation, which has the goal of serving the public good, makes…
PS. With the sincerity out of the way - can't wait for the upcoming Rust rewrite!
Was recently attempting to build the server in a Yocto recipe which means downloading sources for all dependencies ahead of time. The biggest challenge was the pip dependency and transitive dependency list. Each entry here is not only an additional packaging requirement, but another ongoing obligation to monitor for CVEs.
Would love to see Zulip server as a golang binary.
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How is any chat app complicated with 3 people?
Have you used Zulip? The UX is basically chat for vim and tmux users. It doesn’t “feel” like chatting. Not exactly user friendly.
Long-time Zulip advocate; I've (successfully) pushed for it at two organisations, so genuinely, thanks for building something worth that effort. One thing I'd like to understand better: how does the Foundation intend to keep its mandate narrow? The Mozilla comparison in the post is one I find cuts both ways... technically excellent product, foundation that drifted considerably from "make the browser good." The adviso…
I think the question presupposes that we solve the hardest problem for a new non-profit: Funding. We would be very lucky if Zulip with 1% of Mozilla's funding; we could do so so much with that scale of resources.
The biggest risk to Zulip's ability to succeed over the next few years is not risk of spending time on side projects. It's risk of not having the financial resources even to hire remarkable people who want to take a big pay cut to work on Zulip.
For those looking for more context on Zulip, we did a major release a couple weeks ago: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/ .
Long-time Zulip advocate; I've (successfully) pushed for it at two organisations, so genuinely, thanks for building something worth that effort. One thing I'd like to understand better: how does the Foundation intend to keep its mandate narrow? The Mozilla comparison in the post is one I find cuts both ways... technically excellent product, foundation that drifted considerably from "make the browser good." The adviso…
Mozilla has had the unusual situation of having an enormous revenue stream from Google. It is reasonable in that situation to build some adjacent things that support the mission. MDN is amazing, for example! Rust was too! I do feel Mozilla has lost its way, and I think it would be crazy to spend resources available to the Zulip Foundation on projects that don't directly advance Zulip or its community. I think the que…