[showell30]

I'm one of the original developers of Zulip. The long comment I'm replying to is a somewhat rant-y critique of Zulip, but it's basically valid. We honestly have a hard time communicating the stream/topic paradigm, even though in some sense it's just forum/subfora.

I encourage vanderZwan and others to come to https://chat.zulip.org/# to talk to us. We're real people. We like the app we've developed, but we know it's far from perfect, and we especially know that our marketing could use some constructive feedback.

[vanderZwan]

No need to downplay it: it is a rant, and I knew it when I wrote it, but I wanted to get across the raw frustration that I think a lot of users feel. Plus, as I said at the beginning, it was more to illustrate a more general problem.

You have my respect for taking it in stride and listening to the critique! I already mentioned it does look like a good app, and based on skimming through that lightning talk (not to mention this reply by you), the dev community behind it looks open too.