We released Zulip Server 2.0.3 today. This is a bug fix release, containing a few dozen cherry-picked changes since Zulip 2.0.2.

Sometimes even the most experienced agents will face a customer service issue so complex that it leaves them stumped. That’s understandable—after all, as the technology driving many products and services becomes increasingly complicated, the need for guidance from experts on other teams has become commonplace.

After the security incident at Matrix.org, we have decided to publish a new Riot.im Android app on the Google Play Store out of an abundance of caution. The fresh app is still called Riot.im but internally it has a different application identifier (im.vector.app). Because of this new id, the new app appears in Google Play as a completely different application. This also prevents an automatic update from the old to the new application.

One of the most frustrating experiences is to finally win a customer, only for them to stop using your service after a few weeks or months. You spent all that time and money trying to win them over, and the result suddenly vanishes. While there are plenty of reasons for this, one of the biggest is your customer onboarding. If your new converts don’t know what to do or how to use your product or service, then they’re not likely to stick around.

From email to helpdesk, businesses come a long way. As your business expands, so do the needs of your customers—you have to expand your support to social media, you need to be mindful of all the small changes you make to your automation rules, strengthen security, etc. When you’re using a system that works well for small businesses but isn’t designed for scale, it might fail to perform when faced with heavy data.

Great customer service agents are invaluable in any business. Not only can they make your customers happy in an instant, but they can completely change the perception of your company. Finding these great agents, however, isn’t easy. Here are twelve customer service skills all great agents need and what you should look for when building your team…

Defining good customer service can seem to be a bit of a moving target, especially in this era of ever-increasing customer expectations. But the forward-thinking companies leading the charge in this new reality—such as Zendesk strategic partners Guru, Lessonly, and Stella Connect—are keenly aware that it’s their customers who get to make that determination, not them.

If you’re reaching high growth levels, your business must be doing something right. You’re increasing profit, growing your customer base, and hiring new employees in a rush. But if you don’t scale your customer service to support all of those new customers, your competitors could catch up to you. If you want to make the success last and stay on the fast track to rapid growth, you’ll need to make sure that your support approach is innovative.

After switching to a different email address, I recently logged in to my client account to change the contact information my mobile company had. On seeing the email field greyed out and uneditable, I visited their Help and Support page for assistance. Live chat support was available. It was 9:31 in the morning. Someone was already waiting for me—Gie. This Facebook Messenger-based bot initiated the conversation with one of the more tedious stages of getting support: account verification.