News: Our Zulip Chat Exceeds 3,000 Members

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+title: Our Zulip Chat Exceeds 3,000 Members
+authors: Daniel Schürmann
+status: draft
+tags: zulip
+comments: yes
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+#### Our Zulip Chat Exceeds 3,000 Members
+
+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.
+
+### Moving to Zulip
+
+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.
+
+### Conclusion
+
+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
+
+### Thanks
+
+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.