Comment by grayhatter

16 days ago

Because I have some experience with FOSS, I know you don't get the recognition that you deserve. So on behalf of everyone who's too distracted to say thank you.

Thank you!

Admittedly, it did take a day (less than), but once I got used to the interface Zulip provides. It's better than what I would have asked for! It's phenomenal software! The whole experience is better than anything else that exists. And everyone charging for the same features should feel embarrassed given how much better Zulip is!

Genuinely, it's impressive what y'all have created. So thank you!

Yes, hear hear! As someone who've run a couple of FOSS communities, many of them having chats via IRC, Slack, Discord, forums and more, using Zulip has always been one of the most welcome options, yet also the one that takes the longest for people to understand if they've never seen it.

But it's easily worth it, as you can actually come back and read through old discussions and understand things and it isn't a mess. It's like if you could force Slack/Discord to only do threads, and the entire UI is optimizing for that specific UX. Overall pleasant experience once you get over the initial bump :)