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?
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.
I’m also not a fan of forever messages
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
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
nice probably a good idea
I imagine it’s something many people will want
that was one of the reasons I chose it over Slack
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.
plus the way topics are much more dynamic than slack channels is better
Anton, maybe a bot for that?
Uhu, it doesn't seem too difficult
idk if there is already a GitHub zulip bot that we could either borrow code from or just straight up use as is
Which gives me an idea. A bot platform for roc
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!
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!
Rust uses a triage bot that works with zulip as well. A lot could be reused from that bot.
I got dibs obviously :p
jk of course but I do want to give it a go
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