[Inpycon] Chat platform-Zulip for Pycon

[Ananya Maiti]

Hi all,

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 1:38 PM Sharmila Gopirajan
<sharmila.gopirajan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that sticking with an already used option is better than investing in a new one.
>
> We were debating between Slack (which encourages conversation but the possibility of recovering a particular conversation after elapse of a significant period is very low) and a StackOverflow like setup (Topic based, high quality conversations, highly searchable but might not be everyone's cup of tea).
>
> One of the reasons for choosing Zulip was that it struck a nice middle ground with chat rooms and topic based conversations and good searchability.
>
> How does Discord fair regarding that?
>
Discord doesn't have threaded/topic based conversations. One of the
reason we chose Discord last year was because it is free to use and
has no restrictions on the search history. Zulip/Slack has a limit to
the number of previous messages for their free plans. Though it states
they are free for open source communities you need to check with them
for the same regarding PyCon India. If that works out we can go ahead
with Zulip and make it a common chat platform for the upcoming years
as well.

Thanks,
Ananya