Stream: zulip

Topic: renaming streams to channels

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 20 2024 at 13:01):

Interesting. For Zulip 9.0 they are working on renaming streams to channels: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/28468

Makes sense. Calling them channels is much more common.

Maybe we can preemptively start calling them channels, like how we are preemptively calling dataverses collections. :grinning:

Vaida Plankytė 🎨 (Apr 23 2024 at 16:31):

it's going to look like Zulip is copying Slack with its channels/threads... but Zulip was the OG!!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 23 2024 at 17:50):

Yeah, I'm not sure where "streams" came from. Zulip is descended from Zephyr. :shrug:

Philip Durbin 🚀 (May 22 2024 at 12:51):

As mentioned in #zulip > Zulip updates, streams have been renamed to channels.

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