Joe (Apr 05 2025 at 16:55): Joe (Apr 05 2025 at 16:55):Just wrapped the Zulip episode. https://changelog.com/podcast/607
Curious how Changelog & community is liking Zulip 6+ month later?
Siddhartha Golu (Apr 05 2025 at 17:25):I love it.
I had never engaged with the community in Slack because I always got too overwhelmed with the linear flow of conversations. Topic based systems are such a fresh breath of air. For example, I can never imagine having a thread like #general > WordPress Drama being continued for so long in Slack.
Daniel Buckmaster (Apr 06 2025 at 04:38):I'm a big fan, very happy to have one fewer Slack in my life. Zulip feels snappier all round, but one way I especially notice it is that when I read messages, they stay read. In Slack I have to swap accounts and channels several times before the white dots go away. Minor detail but important!
AJ Kerrigan (Apr 07 2025 at 23:22):Loving it too, most notably it makes all my other Slack/Discord communities feel tedious by comparison. Also one or two groups I belong to have moved from Slack to Discord and I've wished Zulip was a more realistic consideration for a general (not tech or work-focused) audience
Daniel Buckmaster (Apr 08 2025 at 02:38):I'm gearing up to try Zulip with a local community led housing group. Several members struggle with Slack's UI and finding messages across various channels so I'm keen to see what they make of Z.
Andrew O'Brien (Apr 14 2025 at 12:21):Big fan. My company is looking to deploy its 3rd self hosted chat system in as many years and I’m trying to unite the anti-“let’s just use Teams because we already pay for Office” people around Zulip.
Chris Duzan (Jul 01 2025 at 17:23):Is there any kind of search functionality in Zulip? I was trying to find a relevant topic to something I wanted to post and I couldn't find any kind of search (I'm on mobile, so maybe desktop has it?)
Without it, I need to click into each channel, and then scroll through all the topics (and possibly scroll through topic messages to see if it's actually relevant to my topic) which doesn't lead to the best experience.
Chris Duzan (Jul 01 2025 at 17:24):Or, is the intention to create new topics instead of trying to match existing ones?
Dixit Ram (Jul 01 2025 at 17:26):Yes, Zulip Mobile does not have it, but the desktop does. You can go to the Combined feed and search.
Siddhartha Golu (Jul 02 2025 at 05:53):Zulip mobile used to have search in the previous (now legacy) react native app, the newer app in flutter was just published a week ago and search is likely coming within the next week.
Alex Barnes (Jul 02 2025 at 07:08):I've ended up downgrading to the legacy app. I wasn't enjoying the new app. Everything seemed to take a lot longer to load, and in some cases just hung whilst loading. I also prefer the style of old app, it seemed more difficult to read for me in the new one.
Siddhartha Golu (Jul 02 2025 at 08:14):That's surprising to hear. I'd request you to post your feedback in Zulip's mobile feedback thread.
I was using the new app since past few months as a beta user and easily prefer the new app over the old one (except for one crucial missing feature i.e. search)
Omri Gabay (Jul 02 2025 at 12:56):I feel so confused trying to navigate this thing... I'm 30 years old and this makes me feel like a boomer
Matthew Sanabria (Jul 02 2025 at 22:47):New app is fine for me. I just want search. Maybe I'm just missing it though since I haven't played around much.
Dixit Ram (Jul 04 2025 at 02:30):I am not getting notifications properly ,in this new update?
Siddhartha Golu (Jul 05 2025 at 06:13):They shipped search with the latest update of the app
Ron Waldon-Howe (Jul 05 2025 at 22:44):I just had a Zulip notification flow all the way through to my Google Pixel watch, which I don't think has ever happened before
Not mad, I assume this is some of the new app magic?
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