Hey y’all, was considering giving Zulip a try. I’ve got a group of friends that do everything from play games together, share memes, and organize medium-ish sized events that require a fair amount of coordination.
I was considering doing a self-host and was curious if doing this through a VPS service would work?
I was also maybe wanting to host somewhere I could also do a CMS and maybe a foundary instance.
As far as the CMS goes it would be a simple blog for sharing music and things.
Foundary is a VTT similar to roll20.
Thanks in advance!
Zulip pretty easy to self host. I ran a server for a group of friends a little while back, and it worked great. The UI takes a bit of getting used to, but it is great once you do because everything is a thread by default. And that makes it really easy to catch up on things.
It’s good. Used it for some NixOS governance stuff. It feels like a hybrid between chat and forum, so it’s good when you want to have semi-structured discussion but still want to stay on top of all topics.
What are you using for voice chat? As far as I know neither Zulip nor Foundry have native voice chat support.
For D&D we usually find it more convenient to keep our notes inside of foundry. I feel like foundry+Zulip+some CMS+some voice chat might be a bit tedious.
Likely I can get everyone on board with Signal for voice.
Zulip would be for updates on other games / scheduling / event planning.
Fohndary would be just for VTT
and the CMS would be for a personal blog.
All separate but if able to run off of one server that would be ideal.
Maybe also some meeting poll software like https://framadate.org/
I don’t see why not, you just need to put a reverse proxy server in front of the services so all the services can be reached with the standard web ports. And domains/subdomains for the services.
Is there a particular reason for Zulip vs something like Signal or Jitsi or Matrix? (Also asking for myself because I’ve been looking into Matrix again lately and this is the second time I’ve seen Zulip come up and in relation to VTTs lol)
Been looking for ease of use and a few people just are adverse to matrix, hoping Zulip would be a hit easier for them but I don’t know yet
IMHO Zulip is a great choice for text chat for teams for companies. In your case take a look at Movim, XMPP based, Movim can do blogs and more: https://movim.eu/
Wow - it literally seems like all the things!
thanks!
took one look, said needs an external video/voice provider (e.g. zoom, jitsi,…), said bye.
yeah, this is my hesitancy for using it for gaming. Most of the other stuff it may work.
I’m taking a new look at stoat and maybe donating to them as well.
I thought I read they plan to do E2EE but it doesn’t yet.
I hate the UI, it looks/feels too much like Slack
