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## Great for developers
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* **Format code as code:** Messages take Markdown formatting,
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[including code
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blocks](/help/format-your-message-using-markdown#code), making it
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super easy to discuss some code or paste an error message.
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* **Clear permalinks:** Have a design discussion in chat and want to
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link to it in your bug tracker or a commit message? [Two
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clicks](/help/share-a-message-or-conversation) makes a permanent
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link. The URL transparently shows where the discussion happened,
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and for everyone who clicks through, Zulip's topic threading
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provides a focused view on that conversation.
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* **Easy custom linkification:** Want to refer to issues or code
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reviews with short notation like `#1234`, `T1234` — or any other
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style of your own? Set up any regex as a [custom linkification
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filter](/help/add-a-custom-linkification-filter) for your
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organization.
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* **Plays well with others:** With [60+ integrations](/integrations)
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including GitHub, Travis CI, JIRA, and Stripe, chances are Zulip
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already integrates with the tools you use every day; and our API
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makes it easy to add more.
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* **Everything in its place:** Troubleshooting in chat for users or
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new developers becomes much more manageable with Zulip's topic
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threading: each issue in a channel can be discussed in its own
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thread.
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## Great for productivity
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* **Clearer conversations:** With Zulip's unique model of threading by
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topic, your community can have more than one conversation in a
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channel at the same time, without the confusion and talking-over
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caused by traditional models like IRC and Slack.
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* **Full service:** No need to settle for a limited "try it out" tier.
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You're welcome to [host Zulip
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yourself](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/prod-install.html),
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or [sign up at zulipchat.com](https://zulipchat.com/beta/) for
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commercially-supported hosting — free for open source projects.
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* **Fast full-text search:** Feeling dejà vu about an issue someone's
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reporting? Searching your full message history is a snap.
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* **Proven model:** [Stop by
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chat.zulip.org](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chat-zulip-org.html),
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Zulip's own development community, to see it in action for a large
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project with ~5000 messages/week, essentially all of it productive
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developer discussion.
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## Great for open communities
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* **Web, mobile, desktop:** Sleek, modern [apps for every
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platform](/apps/) make Zulip an inclusive choice for everyone in
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your community.
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* **Walls optional:** Take down the barrier to participation created
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by making people interested in your community ask for an invitation
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before they can enter — use [one
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checkbox](/help/allow-anyone-to-join-without-an-invitation) to open
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your Zulip organization for anyone to join.
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* **Badges:** Want to link to your Zulip organization with a nice
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badge in your README? [Done.](/help/join-zulip-chat-badge)
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* **GitHub auth?** [We've got that.][github-auth]
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[github-auth]: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/7e9926233/zproject/prod_settings_template.py#L112
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* **Scale:** Zulip scales well to large communities — it's loved by
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communities as large as 1000 users and beyond.
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## Zulip ❤ open source
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* **Free and open source software:** Zulip itself is open source,
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[under the Apache License 2.0](https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/LICENSE).
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* **Free for open source:** Full, commercially-supported hosting at
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zulipchat.com is free for open source communities. [Sign up
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today!](https://zulipchat.com/beta/))
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<!--- This needs better — any! — documentation. -->
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* **Your data is yours:** Zulip's high-quality export and import tools
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enable migrating a community smoothly from one host to another.
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So if you start out running on zulipchat.com, you can always choose
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later to move to your own servers, and vice versa.
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* **The open source leader:** Zulip is the leading open source group
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chat option, with far more contributor momentum than any other.
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Some numbers:
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* Over 300 contributors in the Zulip server project alone — a
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figure reached in only 18 months.
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* 75 people working on Zulip at the PyCon sprints in Portland in
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May 2017.
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* In the [Zulip Server 1.6
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release](https://blog.zulip.org/2017/06/06/zulip-server-1-6-released/)
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in June 2017, over 3100 new commits since 1.5, by over 150
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different people.
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