| 24 May 2025 |
 uep | an experiment with zulip was done for the discussions around setting up the SC | 10:44:59 |
| uep | i don't know what the results of that were, in terms of infra and hosting and moderation facilties, etc | 10:45:26 |
| uep | or user feedback | 10:45:30 |
 emily | right. though I think there were a whole bunch of confounders about that situation | 10:45:34 |
| emily | wrt what the user experience was like | 10:45:40 |
| uep | people tend to either love or hate zulip as a chat platform | 10:45:52 |
| emily | (since it was playing host to some of the most contentious discussions the project has had) | 10:46:05 |
| emily | (and also was invite-only etc.) | 10:46:18 |
| emily | I dunno. it just seems to me that we could easily set up "unofficial not the NixOS Zulip" and get the mod team on there and just sort of play around it with it a bit to see if we can imagine it replacing the Matrix. (I realize that this requires someone to actually do it and that I am dangerously close to volunteering myself.) | 10:47:21 |
| emily | and again I'm not married to Zulip here, it could be Mattermost or Rocket.Chat or whatever else | 10:47:33 |
| emily | it does seem like Zulip is one of the best options for various needs we have and maybe more likely to handle the scale of discussions and rooms we have | 10:48:02 |
| uep | i think it does just need someone to do that, more or less (several someones, but still) | 10:48:20 |
| uep | I think some hesitation just comes from the fact that it won't do anything to change the matrix issue for some time, no matter how interesting the experiment might seem. That's inertia, but real. | 10:49:26 |
