Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta
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What I always found amazing was their support. No matter when I contacted them I got a response immediately and my issue was either taken care of or I got an explanation that it is intended to work this way.
The key feature is having multiple threads of conversation in one room. When you find yourself saying "Wait, was that in response to me or to Alice?" "Neither, I was talking to Bob", or just waiting for a conversation to finish so you're not interrupting and causing confusion, it's the kind of thing you wish for.
It was also pretty good at letting coders talk about code, with Markdown and syntax highlighting, and without mangling whitespace or turning all the (8)s into ridiculous smileys with a left parenthesis.
I'd love to be able to use Zulip when it's more fleshed out, so here's hoping Dropbox does something cool with it, and doesn't just quietly absorb the talent.
It also supports code snippets and side discussions. And it seems really polished. Haven't seen Zulip so I can't compare the two, though.
We are using it on a project across 5 continents and everyone is loving it.
I think one thing it does well it automatically annotate links and code - thats one of many things, but it's quite nice.
The mobile app sounds is so - nice!
Looks like this company did it right and just demoed for all the best people who might buy it quick. Always follow the money!
It seems odd that Hipchat wasn't included in the list.
Is the default behaviour when receiving something like this to immediately leak it?