Opiniones de Zulip

Great for teamwork in STEM fields. Can easily communicate all kinds of technical info, manage team meetings, and share data/code.

There are no strong cons that I can think of.

Zulip is much better than email for our team conversations. It is much more organized and makes it easier to find old but relevant messages. I like the stream/topic way of organizing things. The search history is great and it is convenient that the 'all messages' screen offers a chronological overview of all messages. You can choose who can follow which stream, it has great third-party integrations (Tweets show up quite nicely).

The app no longer shows badges when there are new messages. The desktop version is great but the app has some small issues (for example if you select on the topic, sometimes the message box disappears).

Threading & thread titles like email (unlike Slack or MS Teams). But b/c its focused on just one part of the organization, it helps keep my actual email less cluttered. Built-in support for math in LaTeX is helpful for research. Ability to add guests lets us have collaborators join our group instance but only have access to certain streams (stream : Zulip :: channel : Slack). Privacy features are great to have a mix of discussions.

Originally I felt like I wanted a more robust feature for keeping track of read/unread messages. But having used it now for several years, turns out I didn't really need that feature and get along just fine without it. Organizing conversations in Zulip works great!

I had used Slack before, and found it to be incredibly noisy, distracting and a productivity sink rather than a source. Zulip OTOH is designed to give the user fine grained control over what they choose to pay attention to. Streams and topics keep conversations organized, searchable and allow users to ignore things that would be distracting or irrelevant.

We now have 4 years of communication in Zulip which makes searching very important to revisit past conversations. I sometimes find it challenging to utilize the search functionality well. And if and when I find a message from the conversation that I want to review, it's non-intuitive to navigate from the search results to that full conversation. It's a minor inconvenience though.

The mix between the real-timeness of chat, the persistence of email and the threaded nature of forums is just ideal for team communication.

We're just really happy with it. I don't have any complaints at all.

Zulip give us an horizontal and virtual space to get in contact all the members of our institute. It allows an easy and decentralized way to create different channels of communication between de members while keeping a complete record of all the communications.

Perhaps a better integration with web browsers and linux desktop environment, through notifications or a desktop application.

It is very scalable, and easy to add structure to different discussion threads, share files, and create meetings.

I can't think of any. Zulip is superior to any other solution we have tried to organize the Lean community

The division into streams and then subdivision into topics is very natural.

Really nothing to dislike - it is perfect for what I use it.

Self hosted, easy to integrate with anything, fast and best for teams

You need external integration for video conferencing

chat in real time, the ability to create discussion channels and to create topics within them, to keep the discussions in order, this is the plus compared to other team chat software.
It is also completely open source

some improvements in the mobile app but it is already very beautiful

The best part of Zulip is the way that every conversation is tagged with a lightweight "topic" (so we can always find information later) and the ability to quickly catch up with everything threaded in one chronological view. You don't have to click around to different "rooms" and you don't end up with everything jumbled together and unfindable. The threading works vastly better than Slack or Discord.

New users often find it a bit unfamiliar if they're used to Slack.

Zulip is an easy to use chat app similar to Slack or Mattermost. The single best feature is that it has a two level categorization of messages: the traditional channel (called a "stream") that people can subscribe to, but also an additional "topic", more similar to an email subject. This allows to use zulip also for more long-lived discussions, as it is easy to find messages much later by referring to the topic.Additionally, it is easy to use and supports everything that is expected from such a chat app (standard and custom emoji, reaction gifs, markdown formatting, bots, integration with other tools, etc.)

The UI is not as pretty as its competitors, but its functionality more than makes up for it.

Topics in streams. It prevents creating too many streams while organizing relevant chats together.

UI customization. It supports custom CSS, but it's not easy to do for everyone.

Zulip has excellent organisation: conversations are divided up into streams and threads and direct messages, and you can focus on the parts that matter. We have everything from open, all-purpose streams for new users, down to private streams for core developers.

The mobile app is not quite as good as the desktop app; particularly I often find myself wanting to go back to message I read 10 minutes earlier, and not being able to find it.

Separation of topics instead of one stream with everything

Missing native video/audio integration. Would have been really nice to have connected to streams/topics