[ori_b]

> Nothing avoids etiquette or enforces etiquette except people.

So why is it listed as an IRC specific problem?

> Zulip defaults to full archiving of everything, and making it searchable as well.

I have IRC logs from dead networks dating from over 15 years ago, and I still sometimes look things up in them. I don't want to trust Zulip to survive 15 years.

> Zulip doesn't do anything with github other than the regex-based integration

I see. The parent poster implied that there's no need to pick a username, and that he logs in with GitHub. That implied that it used your GitHub account name, since I don't see another way to enforce unique names.

[tabbott]

Zulip uses your full name as the primary identifier facing other users. Depending on the organization's configuration, a user's email address may or may not be available as well, but we just need your name (and auto-generated user ID) to display messages.

https://zulipchat.com/help/restrict-visibility-of-email-addr...