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Hello, and welcome!
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Zulip is a little different than some chat systems you may have already
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- - Every message has a stream and a topic
- - A stream is kind of like a mailing list -- it represents a group of people -- and anyone can subscribe to a stream and start getting traffic there
- - A topic, on the other hand, is what the message is actually about
- - (You can, of course, send private messages.)
- - All of these are displayed simultaneously, in an interleaved way, chronologically
- - Time flows down
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This means we can have a conversation about git, jQuery,
- fundraising, where to go to lunch, and a message from your commit bot
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Let's take a look
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Here, we have three conversations occurring simultaneously:
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- - One on stream "zulip" with topic "Lunch", about where to go to lunch
- - One on stream "zulip" with topic "Zulip testers", about early beta testers
- - One automated notification on stream "commits", about a commit made to the repository
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Some things to know
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- - "Enter" will start a reply to the message with the blue line by it (in the example above, the one with topic "Zulip testers")
- - When you send the reply, it will appear at the very bottom of the stream (not directly below the message you reply to)
- - We have mobile apps, an API, and integrations with many popular services
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You're ready to go!
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If you have any feedback, please, send it our way!
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