zulip downsides? - General

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Mason Mackaman

I just joined this and it's basically love at first sight. I'm curious though. are there any major downsides that just aren't obvious till you start to use this every day?

Mikolaj Kubera

Mason Mackaman said:

I just joined this and it's basically love at first sight. I'm curious though. are there any major downsides that just aren't obvious till you start to use this every day?

so far i haven't found any, tbh

Mason Mackaman

just found one, can't resize the sidebar to see longer topic names :p

Joel McCracken

I think think sometimes organic discussion is a little bit less "organic" in zulip

Joel McCracken

but... if it were me, today, and i had to choose between starting a community in zulip or slack, i would absolutely pick zulip

Georgi Lyubenov // googleson78

there is one other minor thing - I can't figure out how to (if it's possible) delete thumbnails when I post a link

TheMatten

Inconveniences/bugs that I found while using Zulip:

The pull request adds the support to allow a user to remove previews for any URLs in editable messages. Note: This is based on @punchagan's old PR #12816 with some required updates. GIF:
Our community is testing out Zulip as a replacement for Slack, but we've got something of a dealbreaker for some folks. In particular, there's no option to disable animations. The specific ...
Torsten Schmits

I just realized what amazes me the most about the interface: browsing it feels like Vim, I navigate in normal mode, lens in on a topic with s, go to insert mode with r and then back to normal mode with c-cr and esc

Mikolaj Kubera

Torsten Schmits said:

I just realized what amazes me the most about the interface: browsing it feels like Vim, I navigate in normal mode, lens in on a topic with s, go to insert mode with r and then back to normal mode with c-cr and esc

spot on!! :thumbs_up: :D