Martin Stewart (Aug 13 2021 at 10:44): Martin Stewart (Aug 13 2021 at 10:44):While trying to look at some older topics I noticed that Zulip has a 10,000 message limit. Everything past that is inaccessible. This doesn't seem ideal and is giving me flashbacks to Elm Slack. Is the plan to eventually self host to avoid this limit or is the message limit not considered a problem?
Anton (Aug 13 2021 at 11:35):Excellent question, I don't like keeping all our conversations around forever. With self hosting comes the need for sufficient security to keep our private messages safe. Yet I also don't want to lose all the troubleshooting knowledge we build up over time.
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 11:50):I’m also not a fan of forever messages
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 11:53):but yea there is useful stuff that comes up like FAQ and troubleshooting. That stuff should ideally get noted elsewhere overtime as more of it comes up, who really wants to search message history for that anyways. A dedicated readme is more appropriate I think
Richard Feldman (Aug 13 2021 at 11:58):so if we want, at some point after Roc is in a public repo (not ready for that yet!) Zulip has a "free for open source" plan that has unlimited message history
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 11:58):nice probably a good idea
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 11:58):I imagine it’s something many people will want
Richard Feldman (Aug 13 2021 at 11:58):that was one of the reasons I chose it over Slack
Anton (Aug 13 2021 at 11:59):It would be nice if we could quickly export a conversation to a github issue. I often search github issues for the libraries I use.
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:00):plus the way topics are much more dynamic than slack channels is better
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:00):Anton, maybe a bot for that?
Anton (Aug 13 2021 at 12:01):Uhu, it doesn't seem too difficult
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:01):idk if there is already a GitHub zulip bot that we could either borrow code from or just straight up use as is
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:02):Which gives me an idea. A bot platform for roc
Martin Stewart (Aug 13 2021 at 12:11):I’d love to see a bot platform for Roc. I have a Discord bot and an elm-review-bot I’ve made using Elm + Lamdera. It works pretty well overall, but for CPU heavy tasks it’s not ideal. I welcome more options!
Richard Feldman (Aug 13 2021 at 12:17):cool idea! https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2020/09/30/build-discord-bot-with-rust-and-serenity/ could be a straightforward way to implement that platform - if anyone wants to give that a try, I'd be happy to help!
Anton (Aug 13 2021 at 12:19):Rust uses a triage bot that works with zulip as well. A lot could be reused from that bot.
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:47):I got dibs obviously :p
Lucas Rosa (Aug 13 2021 at 12:49):jk of course but I do want to give it a go
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