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Discuss issues, pull requests and feature ideas, engage with users, answer questions, and onboard new contributors. </p> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> Rust development would not be moving at the pace that it has been without Zulip. </blockquote> <div class="author"> — <a href="https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/lang">Rust Language team</a> co-lead <a href="https://joshtriplett.org/">Josh Triplett</a> </div> <a class="case-study-link" href="/case-studies/rust/" target="_blank">How the Rust language community uses Zulip ↗</a> </div> </div> <div class="feature-container"> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-text"> <h1> Use topics to organize the discussion </h1> <ul> <li> <div class="list-content"> Like email threads, <a href="/help/introduction-to-topics">Zulip topics</a> create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other’s way. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Find active conversations, or see what happened while you were away, with the <a href="/help/recent-conversations">Recent conversations</a> view. Read the topics you care about, and skip the rest. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Keep discussions orderly by <a href="/help/rename-a-topic">moving</a> or <a href="/help/move-content-to-another-topic">splitting</a> topics when conversations digress. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> We just moved the Lichess team (~100 persons) to <a href="https://twitter.com/zulip">@zulip</a>, and I'm loving it. The topics in particular make it vastly superior to slack & discord, when it comes to dealing with many conversations.<br />Zulip is also open-source! </blockquote> <div class="author"> — <a href="https://twitter.com/ornicar">Thibault D (@ornicar)</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-image topics-image"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/open_source/streams_and_topics_day.png" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-container alternate-grid"> <div class="feature-half md-hide"> <div class="feature-image"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/education/knowledge-repository.svg" /> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-text"> <h1> Lasting knowledge repository </h1> <ul> <li> <div class="list-content"> Maintain access to your organization's entire message history with free <a href="/plans/">Zulip Cloud Standard</a> hosting. Information is at your fingertips with Zulip's <a href="/help/search-for-messages">powerful full-text search</a>. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> <a href="/help/link-to-a-message-or-conversation#link-to-zulip-from-anywhere">Permanently link</a> to a Zulip conversation or a message in context from your issue tracker, forum, or anywhere else. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> With the <a href="/help/public-access-option">public access option</a>, anyone can view, browse, and search your organization's public content — no account required. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Conversations are organized by topic, so you can review old discussions to understand past work, explanations, and decisions. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> The core of the Recurse Center is the community, and the core of our online community is Zulip… Switching to Zulip has turned out to be one of the best decisions we’ve made, and it’s impossible to imagine RC today without it. 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This is not possible with other chat tools like Slack or Discord. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Topics provide a safe space to ask a question without interrupting other conversations. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Zulip offers dozens of features for <a href="/help/moderating-open-organizations"> moderating discussions</a>. Members can also <a href="/help/mute-a-user">mute</a> anyone they'd rather not interact with. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Check out <a href="/for/communities/">Zulip for communities</a> to learn more about how Zulip facilitates contributor engagement and inclusion. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> When we made the switch to <a href="https://twitter.com/zulip">@zulip</a> a few months ago for chat, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it was going to become the beating heart of the community, and so quickly. 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We work hard to make it <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/install.html">easy to set up</a>, <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/export-and-import.html#backups">backup</a>, and <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/upgrade.html">maintain</a> a self-hosted Zulip installation, where you have full control of your data. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Our high quality <a href="/help/export-your-organization">export</a> and <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/export-and-import.html">import</a> tools ensure that you can always move from <a href="/plans/">Zulip Cloud</a> hosting to your own servers. There is no lock-in. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Zulip's <a href="https://chat.zulip.org/api/rest">open API</a> is shared by the official web/desktop, mobile, and terminal clients, with a <a href="https://chat.zulip.org/api/changelog">complete API changelog</a> and <a href="https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/release-lifecycle.html#compatibility-and-upgrading"> backwards-compatibility policy</a> designed to support developers of third-party clients. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Zulip supports mirroring channels with <a href="/integrations/doc/irc">IRC</a>, <a href="/integrations/doc/slack">Slack</a>, and <a href="/integrations/doc/matrix">Matrix</a>, and you can connect to other modern chat protocols using <a href="https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge">Matterbridge</a>. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> The Lean community switched from Gitter to Zulip in early 2018, and never looked back. 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My experience with both the app and the website is extremely positive! </blockquote> <div class="author"> — <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/k.buzzard">Kevin Buzzard</a>, Professor of Pure Mathematics at <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/">Imperial College London</a> </div> <a class="case-study-link" href="/case-studies/lean/" target="_blank">How the Lean prover community uses Zulip ↗</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half md-display"> <div class="feature-image"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/companies/software-engineer.svg" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-container"> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-text"> <h1> Powerful formatting </h1> <ul> <li> <div class="list-content"> <a href="/help/code-blocks">Zulip code blocks</a> come with syntax highlighting for over 250 languages, ability to <a href="/help/code-blocks#default-code-block-language">set a default language</a>, and integrated <a href="/help/code-blocks#code-playgrounds">code playgrounds.</a> </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> <a href="/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#latex">Type LaTeX</a> directly into your Zulip message, and see it beautifully rendered. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Enjoy inline image, video and website previews. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> If you made a mistake, no worries! You can <a href="/help/edit-a-message">edit your message</a>, or move it to a different <a href="/help/move-content-to-another-topic">topic</a> or <a href="/help/move-content-to-another-channel">channel</a>. </div> </li> </ul> <div class="quote"> <blockquote> At rust-lang, at Ferrous Systems, and now at Near, Zulip is absolutely invaluable for making technical discussion work! </blockquote> <div class="author"> — <a href="https://github.com/matklad/">Aleksey Kladov</a>, Senior software engineer, NEAR Protocol </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="message-screenshot"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/companies/message-formatting-top.png" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-container alternate-grid"> <div class="feature-half md-hide"> <div class="message-screenshot"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/companies/message-formatting-bottom.png" /> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-text"> <h1> Interactive messaging </h1> <ul> <li> <div class="list-content"> Start a <a href="/help/start-a-call">video call</a> with the click of a button, or plan events without worrying about time zones using <a href="/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#global-times">global times</a>. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Use <a href="/help/emoji-reactions">emoji reactions</a> for lightweight interactions. 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Zulip’s threaded discussions help busy organization administrators and mentors stay in close communication with students during all phases of the programs. </blockquote> <div class="author"> — Srishti Sethi, Developer Advocate, <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-half md-display"> <div class="message-screenshot"> <img alt="" src="https://static.zulipchat.com/static/images/landing-page/companies/message-formatting-bottom.png" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feature-container"> <div class="feature-half"> <div class="feature-text"> <h1> Effective workflows with integrations </h1> <ul> <li> <div class="list-content"> Use topics to manage support workflows, answer questions, and collaborate to investigate issues. <a href="/help/resolve-a-topic">Mark the topic ✓ resolved</a> when done! </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> <a href="/help/add-a-custom-linkifier">Customize Zulip’s markup with linkifiers</a>, so that “TRAC-1234” and “#1234” automatically link to issues or tickets in the tools you use. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Native integrations for GitHub, Jira, Twitter, Sentry and <a href="/integrations/">hundreds of other tools</a> can initiate new topics, creating lightweight discussion spaces for each issue. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Bots can also use a dedicated topic to avoid crowding out conversations. </div> </li> <li> <div class="list-content"> Connect to thousands of tools using <a href="https://zapier.com/apps/zulip/integrations">Zapier</a>. 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