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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Max Nussenbaum
2018-05-08 14:30:28 -07:00
committed by Tim Abbott
parent 815f54cda4
commit caf6870a54

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@@ -20,14 +20,18 @@ conversation in a busy channel at 10am, and Ada swings by sometime in
the evening, there is no way for Ada to effectively participate in
that conversation. If Ada is a manager who spends most of her days in
meetings, or is a remote engineer living 8 time zones away, she wont
be able to participate in most conversations at all. This means that
be able to participate in most conversations at all.
This means that
in an organization that has adopted Slack, the vast majority of Adas
conversations will still be over email, during meetings, or over Slack
direct messages.
By contrast, Zulips lightweight threading model allows busy team
members and remote workers to fully participate, even if they are
reading messages hours after they are sent (or the next day!). This
reading messages hours after they are sent (or the next day!).
This
enables conversation that would otherwise happen over meetings or
email to happen in Zulip itself. It also enables easy participation
and information spread to those that have the least time to attend
@@ -40,7 +44,9 @@ Email is clunky for real-time communication. A thread with even 50
messages feels cluttered and slow, whereas real-time chat
conversations (on any platform) regularly exceed that. Typing
notifications, emoji reactions, keyboard shortcuts, and blazingly fast
clients make Zulip a daily pleasure. Usability matters; in an
clients make Zulip a daily pleasure.
Usability matters; in an
organization that relies on email for communication, things that could
have been resolved over chat end up being pushed to meetings instead.
@@ -49,14 +55,16 @@ have been resolved over chat end up being pushed to meetings instead.
The Zulip project has over 30 core team members, working from over 10
different time zones and 25 different locations. Outside of one-on-one
conversations, Zulip doesnt have a single phone or video-based
meeting. Zulip also has 0 internal mailing lists, and 0 internal email
meeting. Zulip also has zero internal mailing lists, and zero internal email
discussions. By contrast, even Slack doesnt rely on Slack for remote
work; their
[careers page](https://slack.com/careers/location/all-locations/dept/all-departments)
doesnt list a single position where you could work from anywhere.
Threaded conversations mean that all stakeholders can see and respond to
every message, just like in meetings and email. But unlike meetings, Zulip
every message, just like in meetings and email.
But unlike meetings, Zulip
conversations dont require coordinating busy schedules, or hour long
commitments from folks that just need a 5 minute update. And unlike email, a
lively discussion of 300 Zulip messages is just as easy to digest and