Stream: zulip

Topic: from Matrix

view this post on Zulip Jan Range (May 04 2023 at 06:32):

Btw just realized how smooth the change from Matrix to Zulip was :star_struck:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (May 04 2023 at 11:08):

@Jan Range well, I wouldn't say we've changed over completely yet but certainly @Oliver Bertuch , you and I seem to be enjoying Zulip!

What do you like or not like about Zulip, especially compared to Matrix?

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (May 04 2023 at 11:12):

Topics

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (May 04 2023 at 11:19):

Topics do help keep things more organized! :happy:

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Jun 08 2023 at 17:24):

After using this for quite some time now I can say: topics work better for me than Matrix threads. They are messy, require extra steps to look into, etc. I do like the spontaneousness of Matrix with its linear history though.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Sep 21 2024 at 20:45):

I just left a comment and a pic at https://github.com/IQSS/chat.dataverse.org/issues/22#issuecomment-2365314124 about how we've seen steady growth on Zulip since we updated https://chat.dataverse.org to point to Zulip instead of Matrix. I also closed that issue, which was about the transition. We're done! Long live Zulip! :heart: :zulip: :heart:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 09 2025 at 20:21):

Wow, I was just looking at a message in Matrix and learned that my browser, Firefox, isn't even supported:

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view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 09 2025 at 20:22):

It's weird because I'm on the latest Firefox and https://github.com/element-hq/element-web#supported-environments says "Last 2 major versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on desktop OSes". :shrug:

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 09 2025 at 20:22):

Anyway, I'm so glad we switched.

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jan 09 2025 at 20:24):

And the whole login and device verification process reminds me that Matrix/Element is a bit of a usability nightmare, in my humble opinion.

Zulip is by no means perfect but it's much more normal and understandable by mere mortals.

view this post on Zulip Oliver Bertuch (Apr 24 2026 at 08:40):

All of Helmholtz (the largest research organization in DE) is making a move to migrate all their chat services based on RocketChat and Mattermost to a federated Matrix servers. Wondering if we should rethink our approach and create a mirror of our Matrix room here? https://zulip.com/integrations/matrix

view this post on Zulip Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 27 2026 at 12:08):

What would we call it on the Zulip side?

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