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Comment by sweettea

8 months ago

It's OSS and self-hostable. And it's got a great UI and the most joyous technology I've ever had the pleasure of using. https://zulip.com/self-hosting/

Oh, so I was missing something!

That was not very obvious from their landing page!

Well in that case, carry on!

  • > That was not very obvious from their landing page!

    It says in bold letters:

    "Your data is yours!

    For ultimate control and compliance, self-host Zulip’s 100% open-source software"

    • Well yeah but I bet slack has similar wording on their site. In this case they apparently meant it, but to me that just registers as marketing speech.

      I guess I've been on the internet too long, my brain automatically blacks certain language out, like a biological spam filter.

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Sadly as with many such products, if you want SSO and the like, you'll still end up paying per user per month. That gets stupid expensive quick

  • Or not.

    > When you self-host Zulip, you get the same software as our Zulip Cloud customers.

    > Unlike the competition, you don't pay for SAML authentication, LDAP sync, or advanced roles and permissions. There is no “open core” catch — just freely available world-class software.

    The optional pricing plans for self-hosted mention that you are buying email and chat support for SAML and other features, but I don't see where they're charging for access to SAML on self-hosted Zulip.

    • That's exciting! I didn't catch that from the pricing page, thank you for clarifying :)