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portico: Break up long paragraphs on Why Zulip.
This breaks long paragraphs on the Why Zulip page into multiple smaller paragraphs to improve readability.
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@@ -20,14 +20,18 @@ conversation in a busy channel at 10am, and Ada swings by sometime in
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the evening, there is no way for Ada to effectively participate in
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that conversation. If Ada is a manager who spends most of her days in
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meetings, or is a remote engineer living 8 time zones away, she won’t
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be able to participate in most conversations at all. This means that
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be able to participate in most conversations at all.
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This means that
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in an organization that has adopted Slack, the vast majority of Ada’s
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conversations will still be over email, during meetings, or over Slack
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direct messages.
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By contrast, Zulip’s lightweight threading model allows busy team
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members and remote workers to fully participate, even if they are
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reading messages hours after they are sent (or the next day!). This
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reading messages hours after they are sent (or the next day!).
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This
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enables conversation that would otherwise happen over meetings or
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email to happen in Zulip itself. It also enables easy participation
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and information spread to those that have the least time to attend
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@@ -40,7 +44,9 @@ Email is clunky for real-time communication. A thread with even 50
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messages feels cluttered and slow, whereas real-time chat
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conversations (on any platform) regularly exceed that. Typing
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notifications, emoji reactions, keyboard shortcuts, and blazingly fast
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clients make Zulip a daily pleasure. Usability matters; in an
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clients make Zulip a daily pleasure.
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Usability matters; in an
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organization that relies on email for communication, things that could
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have been resolved over chat end up being pushed to meetings instead.
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@@ -49,14 +55,16 @@ have been resolved over chat end up being pushed to meetings instead.
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The Zulip project has over 30 core team members, working from over 10
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different time zones and 25 different locations. Outside of one-on-one
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conversations, Zulip doesn’t have a single phone or video-based
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meeting. Zulip also has 0 internal mailing lists, and 0 internal email
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meeting. Zulip also has zero internal mailing lists, and zero internal email
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discussions. By contrast, even Slack doesn’t rely on Slack for remote
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work; their
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[careers page](https://slack.com/careers/location/all-locations/dept/all-departments)
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doesn’t list a single position where you could work from anywhere.
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Threaded conversations mean that all stakeholders can see and respond to
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every message, just like in meetings and email. But unlike meetings, Zulip
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every message, just like in meetings and email.
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But unlike meetings, Zulip
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conversations don’t require coordinating busy schedules, or hour long
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commitments from folks that just need a 5 minute update. And unlike email, a
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lively discussion of 300 Zulip messages is just as easy to digest and
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