Thanks for replying! I didn't expect the lead dev to actually reply. I will certainly drop by when I find enough time.
- yes, this is self-hosted. I can't check the version, but I think it was recently updated
- notification emails in non-html mode don't carry over the bold, not even in the form of asterisks, so it all blends in with multiple messages
- the "drafts" feature took me a year to discover. Sadly, messages were recomposed. I think it's useful when the composing is interrupted due to external reasons, but not something to work around user action causing clears
- thanks for fixing the collapsing bug, I'll see how my opinion on the composing workflow changes
- CPU load is not that bad, but still way worse than my IRC client or a non-JS forum, so
- I may be somewhat unique in that I automatically `kill -STOP` and `kill -CONT` the browser when not using it, sometimes keeping it frozen for days at a time. That is causing the server issues. Notably, I haven't yet seen any other software or pages having problems with that.
One thing I always respect is the desire to keep improving! Kudos!
> yes, this is self-hosted. I can't check the version, but I think it was recently updated
Well, 3.0 comes out tomorrow (hopefully) so your administrators may want to upgrade once it does :).
> the "drafts" feature took me a year to discover. Sadly, messages were recomposed
Yes, we're planning to add an onboarding notice the first time a draft is saved to avoid this failure mode :).
> notification emails in non-html mode don't carry over the bold, not even in the form of asterisks, so it all blends in with multiple messages
Oh, interesting. Non-HTML emails are hard to do much good with; if you have specific ideas for what we could change to make that better, let us know: https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/new
- thanks for fixing the collapsing bug, I'll see how my opinion on the composing workflow changes
Happy to! We generally fix any easy bug as soon as it's reported as a general practice, since users can really tell how buggy a product is, so hopefully this will encourage you to report more :).
- yes, this is self-hosted. I can't check the version, but I think it was recently updated
- notification emails in non-html mode don't carry over the bold, not even in the form of asterisks, so it all blends in with multiple messages
- the "drafts" feature took me a year to discover. Sadly, messages were recomposed. I think it's useful when the composing is interrupted due to external reasons, but not something to work around user action causing clears
- thanks for fixing the collapsing bug, I'll see how my opinion on the composing workflow changes
- CPU load is not that bad, but still way worse than my IRC client or a non-JS forum, so
- I may be somewhat unique in that I automatically `kill -STOP` and `kill -CONT` the browser when not using it, sometimes keeping it frozen for days at a time. That is causing the server issues. Notably, I haven't yet seen any other software or pages having problems with that.
One thing I always respect is the desire to keep improving! Kudos!