Zulip's topic system looks fantastic for keeping things organised over time. I wish we could use it instead of Slack.
That's definitely true, but the time it really shines is when there's been a lot of conversation on a few different things while you've been away. In Slack, you basically have to read every message to see if there was anything of importance to you. In Zulip you just flick through the topics to see which ones are relevant and only read those.
Re:Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?
by ykevinator on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:12AM
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We use zulip and most of the time the topic thing is used by accident. We also tried slack but it was too bloated. Honestly hip chat was the best platform we ever used. Maybe we will try rocket chat.
Re:Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?
by aero31aero on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:32AM
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> the topic thing is used by accident
It has been designed to be used with the topics and there is no workflow that allows you to avoid topics. I'm not sure what you mean by using topics by accident.
Re:Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?
by Uw7yTcf36gTc on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:01AM
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probably started with a 'general' topic and people never created other topics.
The mobile apps weren't brilliant 9 months ago, but they were in the early stage of a rewrite in react native, so the situation has likely improved as that has matured.