Zulip organized team chat has a new, incredibly flexible system for permissions
management! With it, you can:
Configure the permissions you want, granting them to any combination of
roles (e.g., Moderators), groups, and
individual users. For example:
Express your organization’s structure with
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A trick for staying positive when responding to questions that should not have been asked in the first place.
As we head into the new year, we want to share some fun facts and highlights
from 2024.
Emoji 😸
Zulip users are a positive bunch! About 3% of messages earned an emoji reaction,
with the top 10 reactions of 2024 being (in order):
Why an octopus 🐙? Zulip users like to use the octopus emoji, with its 1�7/a>
To make good use of your time, we focus on the handful of SaaS team chat apps you may want to seriously consider for your business.
This summer,
17 contributors
completed the Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program with the
Zulip development community. This
was the 9th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; over 120
contributors have now completed one of our formal internship programs, primarily
through Google Summer of 1�7/a>
Today is my three-year anniversary as the product leader for
Zulip, the organized team chat product. When I left my job
as a data science manager at Lyft, the career change felt like an experiment.
Now, I’ve been reflecting on why it’s hard to imagine working on anything else.
I’ve never had much patience 1�7/a>
This summer,
13 contributors
completed the Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program with the
Zulip development community. This
was the 8th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; over 100
contributors have now completed one of our formal internship programs, primarily
through Google Summer of 1�7/a>
Update: We have published a
new blog post describing
an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support.
Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed
for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a
cloud service or a
self-hosted solution. Organizations that
self-host 1�7/a>
Last
week, the open-core team chat platform Mattermost
announced that
“Mattermost Cloud Free will no longer be offered after July 26, 2023. 1�7 This
likely came as an unpleasant surprise to users on that plan, as
less than a month before,
Mattermost’s pricing page featured the promise that the Cloud Free 1�7/a>
As we head into the new year, we want to share some fun facts and highlights
from 2022.
Sending and receiving 💬
We often hear that Zulip helps keep everyone in the loop, and in 2022, Zulip
Cloud users sent more messages to public streams than anywhere else.
Stream messages were read an average of 1�7/a>
This summer,
15 contributors
completed the Google Summer of Code
(GSoC) program with the
Zulip development community. This
was the 7th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; over 100
contributors have now completed one of our formal internship programs, primarily
through Google Summer of 1�7/a>
This summer, the
Zulip developer community welcomed
18 student participants
through the Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
program. This was the 6th consecutive year that Zulip participated in GSoC; more
than 85 students have now completed one of our formal internship programs,
primarily through Google Summer 1�7/a>
At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best
collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. If
you’ve been using Zulip, love the product and its
innovative threading model, and want to help
share it with the world, please consider
supporting us.
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Alya Abbott 