Stream: social
Topic: Despite Zulip's own description, would you say that Zulip...
David Pyke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:32):
Zulip is a collection of...
Streams
Channels?
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 31 2022 at 15:41):
Zulip's word is 'stream', so probably best to use that
David Pyke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:42):
But they're not streams! They're channels! I have 40 years of being old and using channels.
John Moehrke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:48):
I thought that stream was the grouping -- #social . But inside a stream are threads/channels/drips
David Pyke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:49):
Channels for subject area and Threads for discussion topics.
John Moehrke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:50):
I must not be as old as you... I am fine using the word STREAMS.
David Pyke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:50):
Get off my lawn!
John Moehrke (Mar 31 2022 at 15:52):
:-D
Josh Mandel (Mar 31 2022 at 15:52):
Collection of topics, grouped into streams :-)
John Silva (Mar 31 2022 at 17:15):
Yeh, Slack calls their equivalent to Zulip stream, Channels, which makes more sense to me. Like radio and TV stations (in the old analog world) Channels were what you 'tuned into'. To me the concept of 'Streams' has the connotation of real-time, optimized video or audio data for viewing/listening; i.e. it's delivered incrementally.
Josh Mandel (Mar 31 2022 at 19:03):
One might say that messages show up on a stream here in a real-time fashion, delivered incrementally :-)
If you don't love the "stream" and "topic" terminology, you might appreciate the following factoid: Zulip was originally modeled after MIT's internal chat system called Zephyr. In Zephyr, the word for channels/streams was "Classes" and the word for topics was "Instances". So perhaps you might at least agree that we've made progress in clarity of terms...
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