Hi everyone!
We (me, Gregory, Riccardo, Damian, and a few others) are currently
testing out a new chat system named Zulip </>. It's similar in scope to
other team chat solutions like Slack, Mattermost, and Rocket.Chat, but
it has a good threading model (all messages are in threads, and they can
be moved between threads) and is quite mature. We decided to try out a
new chat system, because (1) we need a more real-time communication
system than mailing lists, and (2) we found that Discord was useful, but
Zulip would be more configurable and would not require using nonfree
software.
It has a web client, a desktop client (which is a wrapper around the web
client), a React Native mobile client, and an experimental Flutter
mobile client. The React Native mobile client and the Flutter mobile
client are also able to receive push notifications. You can receive
email notifications, too. (Note: You should not download the client from
F-Droid unless you don't have Google Play Services, as the F-Droid
builds have push notifications disabled due to requiring the proprietary
Google Play Services).
We can set up things like archiving the chats to a public website and
mirroring discuss-gnustep to a channel, which could be quite useful.
These integrations are easy to set up.
You can join our Zulip instance at
https://gnustep.zulipchat.com/join/sdwgq3wsotq6hnosat2zynn4/.
(sorry, I thought I had sent this out in July, but it turns out it was
just sitting in my Drafts folder for more than a month.)
