- in addition to the above, they are working on a guest mode, so you can read the discussions without logging in -- hopefully that would make it possible to index without setting up a separate archive hosting https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/13172
- messages/threads have proper meaningful URLs (unlike random obfuscated UUIDs like in Discord)
- you can easily open things in new tabs -- unlike Discord, where search pane takes like 10% of the screen, or Slack where once you clicked on search result, you lose the context about the remaining results
- you can login with Github (so no need to register for many people, at least for programming-related projects)
Zulip is great in concept, but the execution lets it down a little. "stream events" for example sounds awfully techie. The UI is not very pretty, fonts are small, etc. It's not clear where to start a chat in a brand new (or empty channel). If they focused on UI for a few months they'd have an easy winner, but in its current state I've had two separate non-techie teams look at it and recoil, and go back to Slack.
(Also, Zulip should try to compete against NextDoor - but to do so they'd need more control around content expiry once the storage limit was hit. No neighborhood is going to pay $7 per user, so the free offering needs to be compelling.)
- functionality for a public export (can also restrict to specific channels), .e.g. https://leanprover-community.github.io/archive/
- in addition to the above, they are working on a guest mode, so you can read the discussions without logging in -- hopefully that would make it possible to index without setting up a separate archive hosting https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/13172
- messages/threads have proper meaningful URLs (unlike random obfuscated UUIDs like in Discord)
- you can easily open things in new tabs -- unlike Discord, where search pane takes like 10% of the screen, or Slack where once you clicked on search result, you lose the context about the remaining results
- you can login with Github (so no need to register for many people, at least for programming-related projects)