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by BitsAndObjects 99 days ago
Use Zulip.

The migration out of Slack is actually quite easy and preserves all messages, files, etc. Even the user migration is straightforward, keeping Google or whoever as the identity provider if you prefer.

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

The Zulip team has been admirably cautious with their own approach to AI in the product - which I am so thankful for! - but I am sure someone out there has built the integration to get bots deeply into a Zulip org. And if not, building that integration is so much more achievable than rebuilding the whole of Slack.

Zulip is not even close to Slack. It keeps crashing.
I lead the Zulip project and I'm not aware of any common crash issues with either our server or any of our apps.

Can you share details on what you're experiencing with us? https://zulip.com/help/contact-support.

Thanks for your work on Zulip!

I have some feedback that's annoyingly non-specific.

I used Zulip a few years ago as a contractor. It seemed _fine_, but I didn't love it. Specifically, the UI felt sluggish and generally the experience was somewhat unpolished. Maybe things have changed, a lot happens in a couple years, but there you go

Just about every UI component has been redesigned over the last two years. So your experience may be different these days :).
Thanks for sharing the channel. I was using Zulip 1 year ago in my MacOS. It crashes every a few days. Later we give it up and switch to something else. I could submit issue next time I use it. I don't know when though.
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I've been using a couple of different Zulip servers for professional communication for several years and haven't had any issues.
Have used it for years without any problems. Not much recently though, but can't imagine they suddenly became unstable.
FWIW, Zulip is in GSoC this year, so whoever interested in here, i encourage to participate it yea
Sounds like something Claude could fix… /s