Zulip has recently released Zulip 10.0, a platform designed for organizing communication between employees and developers in corporate settings. Originally developed by Zulip and later open-sourced after being acquired by Dropbox, the server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. Clients are available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, with a built-in web interface included.
Similar to Slack, Zulip serves as an intra-corporate alternative to Twitter, facilitating communication and discussion among large groups of employees. The system supports direct messaging between individuals as well as group conversations. Zulip utilizes a threaded message display model, offering a balance between Slack’s room-based approach and Twitter’s unified public space.
Key features of Zulip include the ability to send messages to users in offline mode, comprehensive message history and archiving, drag-and-drop file sharing, automatic syntax highlighting for code snippets, integrated markup language for formatting texts, and group notification capabilities. Users can create closed groups, integrate with various tools such as Trac, Jenkins, and GitHub, and tag messages for easy organization.
Among the latest innovations in Zulip 10.0 is the addition of access management tools, allowing for granular control over user permissions, user groups, and roles. This enables administrators to assign specific rights to individual users based on roles or group memberships, creating a structured hierarchy within the organization.
- One notable feature of the new release is the ability to assign message permissions to users based on roles, such as moderators, or groups, like managers. This allows for the recreation of organizational structures within the platform, with groups representing different departments or teams.
