With Zulip, it is possible for some members of your organization to participate from their email client, without opening the Zulip app after the initial setup is complete. | New emails sent to the email list will now be mirrored to the channel. | If you want to interact with Zulip primarily (or entirely) via your email client: | New Zulip messages will now be delivered to your email account. You can reply directly to the emails coming from Zulip, and your replies will be posted in the appropr...| Zulip
Status and availability let everyone know roughly how quickly you'll be responding to messages. | A status is a customizable emoji, along with a short message. A typical status might be "📅 In a meeting" or "🏠 Working remotely". To make it easy to notice, the status emoji is shown next to your name in the sidebars, message feed, and compose box. | Your availability is a colored dot (like ) that indicates if you're currently active on Zulip, idle, or offline. You can also go invisible to ...| Zulip
In Zulip, a conversation is a direct message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a topic in a channel. | It generally works best to read your messages organized by conversation. | Inbox provides an overview of your conversations with unread messages. Conversations are shown in the same order as in the left sidebar in the web app, and you can collapse any channels you are not currently interested in. | Use the recent conversations view to get an overview of all the ongoing conversations. T...| Zulip
You can send emails to Zulip channels. This can be useful: | If you're planning on doing this in an automated way, and have some programming experience, another option is to use our send message API. | The email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will become the Zulip message. | Note that it may take up to one minute for the message to show up in Zulip. | You can configure who should be the sender of the Zulip messages for the generated email address, with the following o...| Zulip
For security or compliance reasons, you may want to prevent Zulip message content from being sent through your email system. The only place Zulip currently sends message content is in message notification emails. | This setting also blocks message topics, channel names, and user names from being sent through the email system. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
You can reset your password at any time, as long as you either know your current password, or have access to the email address associated with your account. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
There are three types of channels in Zulip: | Organization administrators and channel administrators can always make a channel private. However, they can only make a private channel public or web-public if they have content access to it: | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Conversations in Zulip are organized by topic, so it's generally clear what you're responding to when you send a message. However, when responding to an older message, you may want to quote all or part of it for reference. | You can also forward a message to another conversation. | The first line of a quoted or forwarded message contains a permanent link to the original message. Zulip automatically turns mentions in the quoted text into silent mentions to avoid unnecessarily mentioning someon...| Zulip
Zulip uses Markdown to allow you to easily format your messages. Even if you've never heard of Markdown, you are probably familiar with basic Markdown formatting, such as using * at the start of a line in a bulleted list, or around text to indicate emphasis. | Formatting buttons in the compose box make it easy to format your message. For those who prefer to type the formatting they need, this page provides an overview of all the formatting available in Zulip. There is a convenient message for...| Zulip
Emoji reactions let you quickly respond to a message. For example, 👍 is commonly used to express agreement or confirm that you've read the message. Any emoji can be used as a reaction, including custom emoji. Reactions appear at the bottom of the message. | For messages where few users have reacted, the names of users who have reacted are displayed directly on the message if the option to do so is enabled. | The reactions view lets you see all of your messages that have received at least o...| Zulip
Zulip makes it easy to create a poll. Polls in Zulip are collaborative, so anyone can add new options to a poll. However, only the creator of the poll can edit the question. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip can be configured to send mobile notifications for DMs, mentions, and alerts, as well as channel messages and followed topics. | Zulip Server 11.0+ and Zulip Cloud support end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications. Support is coming soon to the Zulip mobile app. Once implemented, all push notifications sent from an up-to-date version of the server to an updated version of the app will be end-to-end encrypted. | Organization administrators can require end-to-end encryption for ...| Zulip
You can configure desktop, mobile, and email notifications on a channel by channel basis. | These settings will override any default channel notification settings. In muted channels, channel notification settings apply only to unmuted topics. | These settings only apply to channels where you have not explicitly set a notification preference. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip offers a comprehensive toolkit for moderating communities. | Zulip has many features designed to simplify moderation by preventing problematic behavior. | The following features are an important part of an organization's playbook when responding to abuse or spam that is not prevented by the organization's policy choices. | The public access option lets administrators configure selected channels to be web-public. Web-public channels (indicated by a ) can be viewed by anyone on the Intern...| Zulip
When you deactivate a user: | A reactivated user will have the same role, channel subscriptions, user group memberships, and other settings and permissions as they did prior to deactivation. They will also have the same API key and bot API keys, but their bots will be deactivated until the user manually reactivates them again. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip can be configured to send message notification emails for DMs, mentions, and alerts, as well as channel messages and followed topics. | You will receive email notifications only for messages sent when you were not active on Zulip. Messages sent to the same conversation within a configurable time period (e.g., a few minutes) will be combined into a single email. | You can reply to Zulip messages by replying to message notification emails. | You can configure whether the name of your Zuli...| Zulip
Zulip can be configured to send visual and audible desktop notifications for DMs, mentions, and alerts, as well as channel messages and followed topics. | You can select the sound Zulip uses for audible desktop notifications. Choosing None disables all audible desktop notifications. | By default, Zulip displays a count of your unmuted unread messages on the desktop app sidebar and on the browser tab icon. You can configure the badge to only count direct messages and mentions, or to include me...| Zulip
You can archive channels you no longer plan to use. Archiving a channel: | Archiving a channel does not unsubscribe users, or change who can access it. Messages in archived channels still appear in search results, the combined feed, and recent conversations. If you prefer, you can configure an archived channel to hide its content. | You can also make these configuration changes prior to archiving a channel. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questi...| Zulip
If your organization self-hosts Zulip, the server administrator will need to upgrade Zulip in order for you to experience the latest improvements. You can check which version of the Zulip server and web app your organization is using. | Zulip Cloud organizations are always updated to the latest version of Zulip. | The Zulip desktop app has an independent version from the server and web app. | The Zulip mobile apps have an independent version from the server and web app. | Your feedback helps ...| Zulip
Channels organize conversations based on who needs to see them. For example, it's common to have a channel for each team in an organization. Because Zulip further organizes messages into conversations labeled with topics, there is generally no need to create dedicated channels for specific projects. | Everyone other than guests can subscribe to any public or web-public channel. Channel administrators can configure who can subscribe to private channels. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip bett...| Zulip
It's easy to find the right conversation with Zulip's powerful search. When you find the message you were looking for, go directly to its topic for full context. | Whenever you need a reminder of the search filters that Zulip offers, check out the convenient search filters reference in the Zulip web and desktop apps. | Zulip lets you search messages and topics by keyword. For example: | Some details to keep in mind: | Zulip also offers a wide array of search filters, which can be used on thei...| Zulip
Zulip lets you mute topics and channels to avoid receiving notifications for messages you are not interested in. Muting a channel effectively mutes all topics in that channel. You can also manually mute a topic in an unmuted channel, or unmute a topic in a muted channel. | Muting has the following effects: | You can search muted messages using the is:muted search filter, or exclude them from search results with -is:muted. | Zulip works best when most of the messages you receive are not muted....| Zulip
You can mention a team member or user group to call their attention to a message. Mentions follow the same notification settings as direct messages and alert words. A silent mention allows you to refer to a user without triggering a notification. A wildcard mention allows you to mention everyone on a channel, or mention all topic participants. | A silent mention allows you to refer to a user without triggering a notification. Silent mentions start with @_ instead of @. | Using the @**topic** ...| Zulip
Zulip lets you follow topics you are interested in. You can follow or unfollow any topic. You can also configure Zulip to automatically follow topics you start or participate in. Participating in a topic means sending a message, reacting with an emoji, or participating in a poll. You can also automatically follow topics where you are mentioned. | It's easy to prioritize catching up on followed topics. You can: | You can use followed topics for a variety of workflows: | You can configure custo...| Zulip
You can configure desktop, mobile, and email notifications for direct messages (DMs), mentions, and alert words. | These settings will affect notifications for direct messages, group direct messages, mentions, and alert words. | You can also hide the content of direct messages (and group direct messages) from desktop notifications. | You can configure which types of notifications you want to receive for wildcard mentions (@all, @everyone, @channel) and @topic mentions separately from personal...| Zulip
In Zulip, channels determine who gets a message. Topics tell you what the message is about. If you are not yet familiar with Zulip's topics, we recommend first reading about channels and topics. | This article describes a few ways to efficiently read through messages in Zulip. | In Zulip, a conversation is a direct message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a topic in a channel. | It generally works best to read your messages organized by conversation. | Inbox provides an overview of you...| Zulip
In Zulip, a conversation is a direct message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a topic in a channel. | Inbox provides an overview of your conversations with unread messages. Conversations are shown in the same order as in the left sidebar in the web app, and you can collapse any channels you are not currently interested in. | Inbox is a convenient home view if you regularly clear all unread messages in your subscribed channels. | In the web app, you can control whether the Inbox include...| Zulip
The Combined feed view is a feed of all the unmuted messages you have received, which combines channel messages and direct messages. It's a great way to see new messages as they come in. | You can configure Combined feed to be the home view for the Zulip web app. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Permissions in Zulip can be granted to any combination of roles, groups, and individual users. | User roles make it convenient to configure permissions for your organization. You can decide what role a user will have when you send them an invitation, and later change a user's role if needed. | You can also manage permissions with custom user groups. | An organization owner can change the role of any user. You can make yourself no longer an owner only if there is at least one other owner for y...| Zulip
A user is an individual's account within a Zulip organization. Administrators can configure how accounts are created in their organization, and how users will log in. | Zulip lets users and organization administrators configure the following details. This information is summarized in a user's card, and presented in detail in their profile. | Users can also be members of groups, and subscribe to channels. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions...| Zulip
Zulip makes it possible to edit the content of your messages, letting you fix typos, clarify your thoughts, etc. Organization administrators can configure who can edit messages, and set time limits for this action. However, even organization owners cannot edit the content of a message sent by another user. | If you edit a message to mention a user or group, the newly mentioned users will receive notifications just as if they had been mentioned in the original message. | If you edit a message ...| Zulip
Zulip lets you delete the content of your messages or delete messages completely if these actions are allowed in your organization. Only server administrators can restore deleted messages. | Organization administrators can configure who can edit and delete their own messages, and who can delete any message. They can also set time limits on message editing and deletion. | Editing a message to delete its content will cause the message to be displayed as (deleted). The original sender and timest...| Zulip
Zulip shows previews of attached images and videos, unless previews are disabled in your organization. You can click on a preview to view an image in more detail, or to play a video. Zulip also makes it convenient to browse all images and videos attached to messages in your current view. | In the Zulip desktop or web app, you can browse the images and videos in the current view. For example, if you're in a channel view, you'll be able to browse through all the images and videos in that channe...| Zulip
Click the pencil and paper () icon to resume editing. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
The Zulip compose box starts off closed by default, leaving more vertical space for the message feed. There are a number of ways to open the compose box. | All replies are to the message in the blue box. | You can move the blue box around using the arrow keys, J, or K. You can close the compose box using Esc, or up/down arrow if the box is empty. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip lets you view, sort, filter, download, and delete any files that you have uploaded. | You can sort your uploaded files by name, upload date, message ID, and size. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip displays previews of images, videos and websites in your message feed. To avoid disrupting the flow of conversation, these previews are small. You can configure how animated images are previewed, and organization administrators can also disable previews altogether. | In the desktop and web apps, you can configure previews of animated images to always show the animation, show it when you hover over the image with your mouse, or not show it at all. For large animated images, only the firs...| Zulip
Zulip integrates with GIPHY, allowing you to conveniently search for animated GIFs and include them in your messages. | Be thoughtful when using this feature! Animated GIFs can be fun, but they can also distract from the content of a conversation. | You can preview the message before sending to see what the message will look like. | Note that some organizations disable previews of linked images. | By default, the GIPHY integration is configured to only retrieve GIFs that GIPHY categorizes as ...| Zulip
Direct messages (DMs) are conversations with other users that happen outside of a channel. They are convenient for 1:1 and small group conversations. | If you find yourself frequently conversing with the same person or group, it often works best to create a private channel for your conversations. This lets you organize your discussion into topics, and subscribe or unsubscribe people as needed. | There are a few different ways to view your DM conversations. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip ...| Zulip
Channels organize conversations based on who needs to see them. For example, it's common to have a channel for each team in an organization. Because Zulip further organizes messages into conversations labeled with topics, there is generally no need to create dedicated channels for specific projects. | There are three types of channels in Zulip: | Private channels (indicated by ), where joining and viewing messages requires being invited. You can choose whether new subscribers can see messages...| Zulip
In Zulip, a conversation is a direct message thread (one-on-one or with a group), or a topic in a channel. | Use the recent conversations view to get an overview of all the ongoing conversations. This view is particularly useful for catching up on messages sent while you were away. | The recent conversations view displays a limited number of conversations containing the most recent messages. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions...| Zulip
Zulip lets you mute topics and channels to avoid receiving notifications for messages you are not interested in. Muting a channel effectively mutes all topics in that channel. You can also manually mute a topic in an unmuted channel, or unmute a topic in a muted channel. | Muting has the following effects: | You can search muted messages using the is:muted search filter, or exclude them from search results with -is:muted. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact...| Zulip
By default, the Enter key adds a new line to your message, and Ctrl + Enter sends your message. | This is convenient for typing multi-line messages, which are more common in Zulip than in most other chat products. However, you can also configure Zulip so that the Enter key sends your message. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
The home view in Zulip is the view you reach after logging in to the Zulip web app. You can also navigate to the home view via keyboard shortcuts. | The home views available in Zulip are Inbox, Recent conversations, and Combined feed. See Reading strategies for recommendations on how to use these views. | You can configure which view is set as your home view, and whether the Esc key navigates to the home view. Also, you can always reach the home view by using the Ctrl + [ shortcut. | Organiza...| Zulip
Linkifiers make it easy to refer to issues or tickets in third party issue trackers, like GitHub, Salesforce, Zendesk, and others. For instance, you can add a linkifier that automatically turns #2468 into a link to https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/2468. | If the pattern appears in a topic, Zulip adds an Open () button to the right of the topic in the message recipient bar that links to the appropriate URL. | If you have any trouble creating the linkifiers you want, please contact Zulip s...| Zulip
We're here to help! This page will guide you to the best way to reach us. | The primary communication forum for the Zulip community is the Zulip server hosted at chat.zulip.org. Users and administrators of Zulip organizations stop by to ask questions, offer feedback, and participate in product design discussions. | Everyone is welcome to sign up and participate — we love hearing from our users! Please see the Zulip development community guide for detailed instructions on how to join the com...| Zulip
Organization administrators can configure the default values of personal preference settings for new users joining the organization. This can help seamlessly customize the Zulip experience to match how the organization in question is using Zulip. | Existing users' preferences cannot be modified by administrators, and users will be able to customize their own settings once they join. Administrators can customize defaults for all personal preference settings, including the following: | Privacy ...| Zulip
Zulip comes with over a hundred native integrations out of the box, and integrates with Zapier and IFTTT to provide hundreds more. Connect the apps you use every day to Zulip.| Zulip
Integrations let you connect Zulip with other products. For example, you can get notification messages in Zulip when an issue in your tracker is updated, or for alerts from your monitoring tool. | Zulip offers over 120 native integrations, which take advantage of Zulip's topics to organize notification messages. Additionally, thousands of integrations are available through Zapier and IFTTT. You can also connect any webhook designed to work with Slack to Zulip. | If you don't find an integrati...| Zulip
Zulip comes with over a hundred native integrations out of the box, and integrates with Zapier and IFTTT to provide hundreds more. Connect the apps you use every day to Zulip.| Zulip
Everything in Zulip can be done with the mouse, but mastering a few keyboard shortcuts will change your experience of the app. Start with the basics below, and use the convenient keyboard shortcuts reference in the Zulip app to add more to your repertoire as needed. | Reply to message: R or Enter — Reply to the selected message (outlined in blue). | New channel message: C — Start a new topic in the current channel. | New direct message: X | Paste formatted text: Ctrl + V | Paste as plain ...| Zulip
User groups offer a flexible way to manage permissions in your organization. Most permissions in Zulip can be granted to any combination of roles, groups, and individual users. | Groups provide an easy way to refer to multiple users at once. You can: | You can add a group to another user group, making it easy to express your organization's structure in Zulip's permissions system. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and featur...| Zulip
Learn why Rust development would not be moving at the pace that it has been without Zulip, and the organized, searchable conversations it enables.| Zulip
You can add users who should have restricted access to your organization as guests. For example, this may be a good choice for contractors or customers invited to a company's Zulip chat. | Guest users can: | Guest users cannot: | You can also configure other permissions for guest users, such as whether they can: | Zulip Cloud plans have special discounted pricing for guest users. | You can restrict guests' ability to see other users in the organization. If you do so, guests will be able to se...| Zulip
This page describes how to manage your self-hosted plan, and answers some common questions about plans and billing for self-hosted organizations. Please refer to Self-hosted Zulip plans and pricing for plan details. | The topics covered include: | If you have any questions not answered here, please don't hesitate to reach out at sales@zulip.com. | Organizations that self-host Zulip can take advantage of the following plan options: | Free: Includes free access to Zulip's Mobile Push Notificati...| Zulip
Each Zulip account is associated with an email address. If your organization allows multiple authentication methods, it doesn't matter which one is used to create an account. All authentication methods will work for all users in your organization, provided that they are associated with the account email. To log in with email, users are required to verify their email account by clicking on a validation link. | Zulip provides a number of configuration options to control who can create a new acc...| Zulip
Zulip lets you schedule a message to be sent at a later time. For example, if you are working outside of regular business hours for your organization, you can schedule a message for next morning to avoid disturbing others. | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
Zulip supports attaching multiple files to messages, including images, documents, sound, and video. You can edit the names of the files others see after you upload them. | For images and videos, a small preview will be shown directly in the message, if there are up to 24 attachments. People reading the message can click on the preview to view the full-size image or video. | You can share files from other apps on Zulip. | The Zulip Cloud Standard and Zulip Cloud Plus plans include 5 GB of file...| Zulip
Zulip has high quality export tools that can be used to migrate between the hosted Zulip Cloud service and your own servers. Two types of data exports are available for all Zulip organizations: | Export of public data: Complete data for your organization other than private channel messages and direct messages. This export includes user settings and channel subscriptions. | Standard export: Everything in the export of public data, plus all the private channel messages and direct messages that ...| Zulip
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You can write snippets of code, code blocks, and other text in a fixed-width font using standard Markdown formatting. Zulip also has syntax highlighting and supports configuring custom code playgrounds. | Zulip's compose box has a smart Code () button, which inserts contextually appropriate code formatting: | Tagging a code block with a language enables syntax highlighting and (if configured) code playgrounds. Zulip supports syntax highlighting for hundreds of languages. | A code block can be...| Zulip
Welcome to the Zulip help center! | Your feedback helps us make Zulip better for everyone! Please contact us with questions, suggestions, and feature requests.| Zulip
You can invite users to join your organization by sending out email invitations, or creating reusable invitation links to share. | Prior to inviting users to your organization, it is recommended that administrators: | Configure default settings for new users. | Configure the organization language for automated messages and invitation emails for your organization. | When you invite users, you can: | Set the role that they will have when they join. | Configure which channels they will be subscr...| Zulip
