Zulip

“avoid Zulip for a properly secure Discord replacement, givin its lack of (and roadmap refusal for) e2e”

“Thanks for your work on Zulip and for everything you did to increase its availability to the masses. Your work was important.”

“I loved the UI because I spent years in pain finding things in big Slack and Mattermost installations”

“the developers who were hired away considered it their responsibility to keep the project and company going independently”

“none were close in simplicity and features of Zulip. It's one of the best, underrated projects”

“I'm increasingly thankful Zulip exists as an open source alternative to other collaborative platforms”

“Zulip's topics map exactly to AI chats - you can have the whole team and the bot focused on one thing.”

“700K line of high quality code is something to br proud of. It's backward compatible and have very powerful threading system”

“Zulip is pretty weird compared to the rest, it's always hard to tell what's even going on with threads within threads within threads.”

“The official docker compose has databases set up already, I guess you were missing those from your ChatGPT created compose file.”

“the bugs i am seeing do not happen in other apps and should be easily fixable in a proper build webapp”

“turns out, there is a design for lighter-weight headers, which I prefer. But they haven't gotten to it yet.”

“It does what we need it to do — while letting us control where it's deployed and where the data is stored”

“Zulip defaults to assuming that all chat is valuable and taxes every interaction with a little bit of up front effort.”

“its just apparent no designer or usability person ever used it or was involved in anything for this project”

“I have found Zulip makes it easier to come back and catch up on just the bits you care about.”

“They did remove mobile notifications without a subscription recently and the price is quite high ONLY for notifications.”

“The mobile app is worse as it only allows writing in a few views that are not easy to access”

“every time i have to use it for a community i effectively stop interacting with them after a short while just because everything is janky, ugly and feels like a drag to interact with”

“Zulip isn't charging you anything unless you're a business with more than 10 users and need push notifications”

“One of the nice things about Zulip's model is that communities that we do not want to host can just migrate to self-hosting.”

“Zulip's implementation of notifications may be both a) better for usability and b) a lower maintenance burden”

“the topics-based organization and ability for moderators to move/split conversations means one can read and participate in a community much more fully”

“I love Zulip's UX. The fact that everything is a thread in a channel means I can quickly skip the threads I don't want”

“I consider Zulip to be mainly for people who want to achieve things together, not just hang out.”

“Zulip has a "channel view" which lets you see all messages in a channel, chronologically, just like Slack or Discord or IRC.”

“You can do everything with the keyboard, and we do write everything with screenreader accessibility and colorblindness accessibility in mind.”

“It’s a bit odd that encrypted notifications still don’t work, and I’d argue it’s a very big caveat with regard to privacy and security.”

“which has already "broken the seal" of restricting features behind a monthly fee even for self-hosted users”

“Zulip is a collaboration platform for groups who want to get shit done. I wouldn't recommend it for a "place to hang out".”

“I used it at my previous employer and after a month of hangringing from people- many did not desire to go back to what we had before.”

“Most of our agents are in their 60s or 70s, so the software must be as simple as possible. That's why we love Zulip”

“every message belongs to a topic and the async communication focus makes so much sense to me”

“They really get open source, allow you to own your data, and their UI despite being a bit quirky is IMO the best out there for handling complex conversations”

“Slack competitors like Teams, Zulip, and Mattermost all offer easy ability to integrate with anything that can make a web request.”

“you can mark any Zulip channel as public, which means the chat history for that channel does not require a login to view”

“It’s a bit odd though that Zulip charge $ for mobile notifications but still don’t have basic end-to-end encryption for those push notifications”

“Zulip self hosted has all features with no restrictions, except for mobile notifications which require a subscription”

“The issue is messages show up in multiple places which is unintuitive for someone with a spacial brain like me.”

“Zulip is 100% open-source, and we sponsor our hosted services (mobile notifications, etc.) free for OSS projects.”