“What export options does Microsoft Teams have these days?” I wondered. I was
rounding out the context for a new
blog post
about the barriers Slack puts up to exporting your message history, and
accessing your own messages via the API.
As it turns out, a
documentation page
Microsoft published in February …
There’s a new camera app that you’ll just love! Here’s the FAQ for SnatchCam:
Can I view my pictures any time? You can view them for 90 days for free!
After that, you can sign up for a paid plan to keep access. You’ve got a year
until this app starts deleting older pictures.
Can I download my pictures? …
A trick for staying positive when responding to questions that should not have been asked in the first place.
As we head into the new year, we want to share some fun facts and highlights
from 2024.
Emoji 😸
Zulip users are a positive bunch! About 3% of messages earned an emoji reaction,
with the top 10 reactions of 2024 being (in order):
Why an octopus 🐙? Zulip users like to use the octopus emoji, with its …
Last week, Slack’s users realized that under the company’s terms of service,
their private data could be used to train artificial-intelligence models.
— Slack’s privacy principles,
May 17, 2024
This came as a shock: chat messages convey sensitive company data, and LLMs
(large language models, the category …
Today is my three-year anniversary as the product leader for
Zulip, the organized team chat product. When I left my job
as a data science manager at Lyft, the career change felt like an experiment.
Now, I’ve been reflecting on why it’s hard to imagine working on anything else.
I’ve never had much patience …
As we head into the new year, we want to share some fun facts and highlights
from 2022.
Sending and receiving 💬
We often hear that Zulip helps keep everyone in the loop, and in 2022, Zulip
Cloud users sent more messages to public streams than anywhere else.
Stream messages were read an average of …
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