> Nothing avoids etiquette or enforces etiquette except people.
So why is it listed as an IRC specific problem?
> Zulip defaults to full archiving of everything, and making it searchable as well.
I have IRC logs from dead networks dating from over 15 years ago, and I still sometimes look things up in them. I don't want to trust Zulip to survive 15 years.
> Zulip doesn't do anything with github other than the regex-based integration
I see. The parent poster implied that there's no need to pick a username, and that he logs in with GitHub. That implied that it used your GitHub account name, since I don't see another way to enforce unique names.