Re:Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum
by jjordan on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:42AM
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There's a tech community slack in my area with dozens of vertical channels of discussion. I'm sure that at there's been many interesting conversations, but because the free version limits a server to 10,000 messages across all channels, the majority of chats are 'empty' until someone decides to pony up the $8,500(!) per month to fully unlock the community.
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Hey, Zulip offers our Standard plan[1] for free for communities like yours. There is no restriction on message history. Plus the unique threading model of Zulip makes it easier to run communities[2]. If you folks are interested feel free to create an organisation in zulipchat.com and mail us at [email protected] for activating Zulip standard. We support exporting the data from Slack as well :)
[1] https://zulipchat.com/plans/
[2] https://zulipchat.com/for/working-groups-and-communities/
Re:Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum
by molsongolden on Thursday February 14, 2019 @03:29AM
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Zulip rocks. Streams + topics are great when I can’t check chat constantly and need to later skim a large amount of activity.
Re:Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum
by nebulaserfer on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:39AM
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Zulip not rocks at all. Maybe topics are handy buy overall user interface so clumsy, small fonts and so on. Tools like Slack spoiled us in terms of UI. Mattermost maybe closest one to slack slickness.
Without a hint of vitriol: any tech community that wants to use something like Slack is not the kind of tech community I want anything to do with. I'm glad they exist, I'm glad they like that kind of thing, and I'm glad to never have to touch it.