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45 lines
1.8 KiB
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45 lines
1.8 KiB
HTML
{% extends "zerver/portico.html" %}
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{# A brief "What is Humbug?" explanation page #}
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{% block portico_content %}
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<div class="row-fluid">
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<div class="span8">
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<p class="lead">The group communication product you've always wanted.</p>
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<ul class="breadcrumb">
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<li><a href="/">Home</a> <span class="divider">/</span></li>
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<li class="active">What is Zulip?</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Email. We all get too much of it.</p>
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<p>Why? Because there really isn't anything better out there
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today. <em>Maybe</em> you're using a chat system for some
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messages, but by and large, everything else is going to your
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email. And while that may have worked in 1970, email is no longer
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a good catch-all for your communication in this day and age.</p>
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<p>More concerningly, the most important kind of
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communication—group conversation—isn't being done
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electronically today at all. Email is neither instantaneous nor
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conversational. Getting a substantive back-and-forth going on
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Twitter or Facebook is an exercise in frustration. And the group
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"chat" products that exist today are a mess—their model is
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all wrong.</p>
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<p>What would a good system do? Well, for starters, it would:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Encourage truly conversational interactions (which means that it must support real-time communication), but also</li>
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<li>Work naturally when people aren't online at the same time, and</li>
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<li>Let you easily follow many different conversations</li>
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</ul>
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<p><strong>That's where Zulip comes in</strong>. Based on our
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experience at MIT, Ksplice, and Oracle, we're solving this
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problem, with a webapp and native mobile apps for Android and
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iPhone. We are currently in closed beta.</p>
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<p><strong>Interested?</strong> <a href="/new-user">Learn more</a>.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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{% endblock %}
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