If you’re willing, I’d appreciate more information on this claim:
Don’t waste your time with Zulip, it is just another corporate messenger.
I tried looking it up myself, but I didn’t see anything that bad. Open source, self-hostable, Apache 2 licensed, didn’t see any CLA. About the Element thing, that sounds a bit far-fetched, but I’ll refrain from saying anything else since I haven’t had time to look into it. The Freenode story sounds interesting though, I’ll try looking it up later.
The issue is the intended use case and not specific licensing and so on. Zulip targets internal chat in a corporate environment, like MS Teams and the like, which makes it ill suited as a Discord replacement.
Fair point, thanks for sharing. Does that mean you consider fine the use of Zulip by open source development teams? Seeing as their main objective is providing organized chat between core contributors (with some level of outsider participation), that is, generally focused on facilitating the work of the project instead of building a community.
If you’re willing, I’d appreciate more information on this claim:
I tried looking it up myself, but I didn’t see anything that bad. Open source, self-hostable, Apache 2 licensed, didn’t see any CLA. About the Element thing, that sounds a bit far-fetched, but I’ll refrain from saying anything else since I haven’t had time to look into it. The Freenode story sounds interesting though, I’ll try looking it up later.
The issue is the intended use case and not specific licensing and so on. Zulip targets internal chat in a corporate environment, like MS Teams and the like, which makes it ill suited as a Discord replacement.
Fair point, thanks for sharing. Does that mean you consider fine the use of Zulip by open source development teams? Seeing as their main objective is providing organized chat between core contributors (with some level of outsider participation), that is, generally focused on facilitating the work of the project instead of building a community.
If that team currently has a strong email culture, yes. Zulip is basically a “what if chat was more like threaded email” UI experiment.
Teams that are more used to Slack or Discord will probably hate it though.