[conorbergin]

I've only used Zulip when checking out the Lean Zulip a few years ago, and I thought it was an infinitely better interface than Discord for serious discussion, and also much easier for lurkers to find information. I wish more projects adopted it.

[ktpsns]

I just gave Zulip a try with a team of 3. I loved the UI because I spent years in pain finding things in big Slack and Mattermost installations (big = 30 users, nowhere near enterprise-level). For my two junior colleagues, instead, Zulip was too complicated. We evventually switched over to Discord.

I highly recommend Zulip to anybody who faces the problem that the concept of threads and channels is not a good fit to their mental model of tasks and groups in teams.

[goosejuice]

How is any chat app complicated with 3 people?

[jinushaun]

Have you used Zulip? The UX is basically chat for vim and tmux users. It doesn’t “feel” like chatting. Not exactly user friendly.

[goosejuice]

Well yes, I've used most of the main players. What exactly isn't user friendly about it? You can't find the conversation?

[Davidzheng]

My only gripe is that on my phone sometimes it takes like 30 seconds to load, which doesn't seem to happen for almost anything else

[tabbott]

There's new long-lived connection support in Zulip 12.0 that will enable the mobile app to do a lot better for startup in organizations with multiple 10ks of users.

I think it's expected to be enabled in the mobile apps in the next couple weeks.