TextBelt VS Zulip

You can look into this: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt

Anyone here knows of a free TextBelt style SMS API that is free for sending at max about 200 message a day?

Can your monitoring system run shell scripts and curl in response to events? If so you could use a service like Textbelt to send SMS messages from it.

I’m just looking for an api as simple as this one.

I settled on https://textbelt.com/ since it was cheap, a curl one-liner to use and didn't require me to install something new on my phone.

% long-running-job.sh ; sms "the job is done"

See also: https://textbelt.com/

Did you look at zulip? https://zulip.com/

I'm not convinced it's better than irc+proper mailing lists - but given that real users are stuck in awful mail clients (like web/Gmail or outlook) - mailing lists isn't a great option any more.

Main thing I miss from zulip is a proper weechat plug-in (like wee-slack) - although the official cli client isn't terrible - it's just not irc-like.

https://zulip.com has been pretty solid for me.

How about Zulip? It has topics which help with organizing Q&A. Rust-lang has moved from Discord to Zulip and this is how it looks like today.

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During the pandemic, some online chat groups have popped up as well, mostly on Zulip. It sounds like you're looking for some community, so these would be good for catching up and integrating yourself back into the community.

To clarify here, from https://zulip.com/help/public-access-option#caveats:

> Web-public streams do not yet support search engine indexing. You can use zulip-archive to create an archive of a Zulip organization that can be indexed by search engines.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/21881 is the issue to track for the native search indexing feature.

Another option that I don't see mentioned enough is Zulip. Don't let the IM looking interface turn you off, the idea of topics feels very much like the individual threads in NNTP without the email cruft.

Now, I want to highlight that you may use a project in another role other than as a developer. For example, if you are using an end-user application (using a real-time chat app, like Zulip, to communicate with other people). You can still find the project source code repository, and contribute in many ways.