Alya Abbott

I can't promise anything about your specific experience, but we have had folks tell us that when they moved to Zulip, they actually started getting much better at community engagement. Because it works quite nicely for folks who are not around all the time.

I can't promise anything about your specific experience, but we have had folks tell us that when they moved to Zulip, they actually started getting much better at community engagement. Because it works quite nicely for folks who are not around all the time.

So, I mean, one kind of category of folks, as you were saying, is maybe people who are lurking or who are just kind of coming by once in a little while, once in a while to check in on something. And if you're coming to something like Slack, you know, it's hard to... you might see the latest messages.

So, I mean, one kind of category of folks, as you were saying, is maybe people who are lurking or who are just kind of coming by once in a little while, once in a while to check in on something. And if you're coming to something like Slack, you know, it's hard to... you might see the latest messages.

It's going to be not really possible for you to kind of catch up on what you missed if you're checking out every couple of weeks or every month in an active organization. Whereas for Zulu, if you just want to sort of check in on things occasionally, folks will come in and they'll look at that recent conversations you maybe saw when you were exploring the app.

It's going to be not really possible for you to kind of catch up on what you missed if you're checking out every couple of weeks or every month in an active organization. Whereas for Zulu, if you just want to sort of check in on things occasionally, folks will come in and they'll look at that recent conversations you maybe saw when you were exploring the app.

And instead of having to look at sort of individual messages and try to figure out what's going on, they'll just see that list of topics and they can be like, oh, this topic sounds interesting. Let me jump into that.

And instead of having to look at sort of individual messages and try to figure out what's going on, they'll just see that list of topics and they can be like, oh, this topic sounds interesting. Let me jump into that.

And so you don't even have to feel obliged to kind of make everything be marked as red or kind of manage your own reds necessarily if it's just something where you're not following every little detail. You really can kind of just skim that list of what's been going on and jump in to the ones that are of interest. And so...

And so you don't even have to feel obliged to kind of make everything be marked as red or kind of manage your own reds necessarily if it's just something where you're not following every little detail. You really can kind of just skim that list of what's been going on and jump in to the ones that are of interest. And so...

Yeah, so we've had folks say that something like an open source project, that it can actually really be great for community engagement because people can select the parts that are interesting to them and just follow those and jump in on those. You can even configure notification.

Yeah, so we've had folks say that something like an open source project, that it can actually really be great for community engagement because people can select the parts that are interesting to them and just follow those and jump in on those. You can even configure notification.

There's a concept of following topics, so once you've seen something that's interesting, if it's a community you're not engaged with very regularly, you can follow that particular topic and, say, get email notifications when there's more messages just to that topic. And so... There's really ways to follow specific conversations and find things to engage with for occasional users in a community.

There's a concept of following topics, so once you've seen something that's interesting, if it's a community you're not engaged with very regularly, you can follow that particular topic and, say, get email notifications when there's more messages just to that topic. And so... There's really ways to follow specific conversations and find things to engage with for occasional users in a community.

Yeah, exactly. So this is something that there's an overall organization setting for whether you want to have public channels as an option. So for example, some businesses might not want to share anything and they just want to turn that all the way off. And then, yeah, for any given channel, you just configure it.

Yeah, exactly. So this is something that there's an overall organization setting for whether you want to have public channels as an option. So for example, some businesses might not want to share anything and they just want to turn that all the way off. And then, yeah, for any given channel, you just configure it.

You can configure it to be kind of public for logged in folks, private or public even without logging in. So, yeah, what you guys were seeing in the development community is a bunch of channels that we've marked as completely public. And then, yeah, you can just kind of come by and not have to log in and just view messages there.

You can configure it to be kind of public for logged in folks, private or public even without logging in. So, yeah, what you guys were seeing in the development community is a bunch of channels that we've marked as completely public. And then, yeah, you can just kind of come by and not have to log in and just view messages there.

And then, of course, if you want to participate, then you would create an account and log in and post.

And then, of course, if you want to participate, then you would create an account and log in and post.