title: Our Zulip Chat Exceeds 3,000 Members authors: Daniel Schürmann status: draft tags: zulip comments: yes
Since moving our community discussions from our mailing list to Zulip in 2018, we have never looked back.
This month, we have the first time more than 3,000 registered users in our Mixxx Zulip community!
We now exchange around 4,000 messages every month, something a mailing list could never handle effectively. The community continues to grow steadily, both in users and in activity, with over 60 individuals actively participating in discussions every month.
Zulip has become a solid foundation of our community. A place where developers, translators, designers, and testers meet and collaborate.
Before Zulip, we used Mailman for our mailing list and a IRC channel for instant messanges. for years, but we ran into several challenges:
- Cluttered threading and confusing message flow
- No shared cloud storage for files and images
- No video chat
As the project and number of contributors grew, we needed a platform that could keep conversations organized and accessible to everyone.
Zulip, which was open-sourced in 2015, was very promising and convinced us after a short evaluation period. It's unique thread system was the ideal solution to replace structured email threads and instant chat rooms.
Whenever a topic drifts, we can split it into a new thread, so conversations stay focused and are easy to follow.
This approach makes it possible to collaborate asynchronously across time zones without missing important context.
No need to hang around in chat rooms for not missing an important conversations.
Thanks to Zulip, it’s now much easier to stay up to date. Our team collaboration and community engagement have both improved significantly. Zulip works particularly well for open-source projects where many topics run in parallel, and where structure and focus are key to success. It can be used with a web frontend of a Mobile app for Android and IOs.
The introduction of Zulip was the right move for us. If you are in the same situation and still using a mailing list or chat rooms, give Zulip a try.
You can self-host or use Zulip’s hosted service, and you don’t depend on a single provider for all your services.
If you like to join us at Zulip create your account and say Hallo at https://mixxx.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/109123-introduce-yourself
Finally we like to thank the Zulip contributors and organization for building and hosting our community instance.
Your work makes open collaboration possible for the now > 3,000 of Mixxx contributors around the world at no costs.