CoffeeMar 1

Zulip is a wonderful blend of the good old forums' ability to keep information accessible, and Discord's fast-paced formula; the way it's organised and displayed to the user is fairly unique and slightly alien, but it presents an amazing opportunity to sort and organise the discussions in your community space.

You know how the Discord threads are kind of useless?

Zulip puts threads, or "topics", front and centre - when you click on a channel, you end up browsing the most recently active topic, and see a list of other available topics. You can start and archive topics as you see fit. Archived and resolved topics are out of the way, but still accessible rather than getting lost under piles of fresh messages.

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Show threadCetraMar 1
@coffee this is only one half of the coin. As far as I know, there is no way to read things with curl and the like, you have to use a browser to view things
Show threadCoffee
@cetra3 I've no use case in mind where that would be a problem
Mar 1 at 10:09amWeb
Show threadCetraMar 1
@coffee There is a lot of information locked away in these discussions that make it hard to discover, which is the same downside as discord.
Show threadCoffeeMar 1
@cetra3 One should be running a forum, or a static knowledge base page to avoid this issue. Zulip is more a community/team communication and coordination tool.
Show threadCetraMar 1

@coffee yes definitely. It just feels to me that when you introduce something like discord/zulip to a project that's where the majority of information and discussions live.

For instance I've been looking into the state of custom allocators in rust, and a lot of the information around it is in the zulip chat. There is a wg repo but that is out of date

Show threadCoffeeMar 1
@cetra3 I think that's the fault of the individuals that really should be keeping their documentation maintained, and not the tool, at this point :D