# Linking to Zulip on the Discourse bottom banner

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150 "2020-09-23T18:56:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/1 "2020-09-23T18:56:01Z")

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Hello, I recently noticed that we now have a bottom banner on Discourse with some links to the Julia twitter, youtube, github, stack overflow and Slack pages.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/1/2/120b45e5fd4dc89175f5853506f66a36b13145e5.png)

I was hoping to start a conversation about having the [Julia Zulip community](https://julialang.zulipchat.com/#recent_topics) included in that list.

The Julia Zulip community is a chat platform that averages a bit over 100 active users per day and is used both as an open source Slack alternative, but also as a home for several Julia sub communities who depend on it’s support for inline LaTeX math and persistent message history. It’s mentioned on [Community](https://julialang.org/community/), so it’d be nice if could be included on the Discourse banner too.

There are dozens of us!

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**Author:** ![waldyrious](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/waldyrious/32/80_2.png) [@waldyrious](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/waldyrious)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/2 "2020-09-23T22:25:15Z")

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In case a negative, simplified version of the [Zulip icon](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zulip_logo.svg) is needed, I just uploaded [one](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plain_white_Zulip_logo.svg) to Wikimedia Commons 😉

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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/3 "2020-09-23T22:27:23Z")

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They’ve actually updated their logo away from that design:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/0/f/0fb66c5bbbde208af123e9dad80e390b3fb736ae.png)

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**Author:** ![waldyrious](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/waldyrious/32/80_2.png) [@waldyrious](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/waldyrious)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/4 "2020-09-23T22:28:14Z")

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Oh well… good thing I enjoy playing with SVG anyway 😂

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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/5 "2020-09-24T05:27:30Z")

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@mbauman

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/6 "2020-09-24T13:33:30Z")

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I actually looked into this when I threw that footer together — the only reason I didn’t add Zulip was because the theme component we’re using here ([easy-footer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/easy-responsive-footer/95818)) uses font-awesome 5 brand icons… and Zulip [isn’t there](https://fontawesome.com/icons?d=gallery&q=zulip). I don’t know how to use arbitrary SVGs… if someone can figure it out I’d be happy to add it.

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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/7 "2020-09-24T19:20:26Z")

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Hm, I see, that’s. Perhaps one hacky option would be to (ab)use unicode? e.g. maybe there’s a unicode Z in an appropriate font that’s close enough. Any ideas @cormullion?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/8 "2020-09-24T21:27:03Z")

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I think we can easily add custom CSS to each theme… which could allow us to define a custom zulip class for its SVG definition… I think. The FontAwesome names just end up as the `link.className` here:

> <https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-easy-footer/blob/b70f0edc3961afa9179658a4e8aab3f838fd5cb0/javascripts/discourse/connectors/below-footer/custom-footer.hbs#L40>

So we just need a custom CSS class defined, right?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/3/f3a8512e22ffa5f2883629f7fd4248ef37a46863.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/9 "2020-09-24T22:07:31Z")

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On a related note, you can upvote the Zulip icon on Font Awesome: [https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16999](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16999)

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/10 "2020-09-24T22:22:25Z")

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[https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-easy-footer/blob/b70f0edc3961afa9179658a4e8aab3f838fd5cb0/settings.yml#L34](https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-easy-footer/blob/b70f0edc3961afa9179658a4e8aab3f838fd5cb0/settings.yml#L34) maybe

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**Author:** ![dilumaluthge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dilumaluthge/32/29283_2.png) [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/11 "2020-10-04T01:09:18Z")

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Bump. It would be great to get this added to the footer.

@mbauman @cormullion Looks like you might be close to figuring it out?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/12 "2020-10-05T14:02:26Z")

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Not really, no. Looking back at my post above, the important thing isn’t the `link.classname` — it’s the `link.icon`. And I think that `{{d-icon link.icon}}` is an expander function expands it out to a hardcoded link into FontAwesome.

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**Author:** ![dilumaluthge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dilumaluthge/32/29283_2.png) [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/13 "2020-10-05T14:19:15Z")

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Hmm. If it’s hardcoded to be a FontAwesome icon, maybe we just pick a generic “chat” icon for now? E.g. [comments | Font Awesome](https://fontawesome.com/icons/comments?style=regular)

And then once [https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16999](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16999) has been implemented, we can switch to the correct icon.

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/14 "2020-10-08T16:59:51Z")

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Good idea. Done.

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**Author:** ![icweaver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/icweaver/32/45764_2.png) [@icweaver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/icweaver)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/15 "2025-12-04T21:05:43Z")

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Update: This issue has been transferred. Please leave your updoots here now: [Brand Request: Zulip · FortAwesome/Font-Awesome · Discussion #20976 · GitHub](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/discussions/20976)

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**Author:** ![icweaver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/icweaver/32/45764_2.png) [@icweaver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/icweaver)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/16 "2026-02-10T21:48:46Z")

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Update: It’s in now =D

> **[Uh oh! - Brand Request: Zulip · FortAwesome Font-Awesome · Discussion #20976](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/discussions/20976#discussioncomment-15761087)**
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> 🏷️ What brand are you requesting? Transferred from: #16999 Name: Zulip No worries, @sensibleworld! Thank you for all of your work, and for considering this logo. This article from NumFOCUS may also...

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**Author:** ![icweaver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/icweaver/32/45764_2.png) [@icweaver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/icweaver)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-zulip-on-the-discourse-bottom-banner/47150/17 "2026-06-04T19:13:22Z")

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Since we’re not on the latest version of font awesome here, would it make sense to manually update the icon for now? Taking a look at the [Discourse documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-discourses-default-svg-icons-with-custom-icons-in-a-theme/115736), would the steps be to:

1. Add an SVG spritesheet:

2. Update the placeholder icon to something like:

This example uses the [`circle-zulip`](https://fontawesome.com/icons/brands/solid/circle-zulip) icon, but there is also the plain [`zulip`](https://fontawesome.com/icons/brands/solid/zulip) icon too if that is preferred