Zulip - Powerful open source group chat

[jdaviescoates]

@avatar1024 said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

Yes there is

$3.50/user/month just for that seems a bit steep

[avatar1024]

@jdaviescoates said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

$3.50/user/month just for that seems a bit steep

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@avatar1024

@jdaviescoates said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

@avatar1024 said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

Yes there is

$3.50/user/month just for that seems a bit steep

Actually Zulip may be the most affordable open source chat app out there. Those $3.5/user/month only come into play if you have more than ten users and want to have mobile notifications using Zulip's relay server.

For Mattermost, you only get a basic version if you don't pay at least $10/user/month for a non-open source version.

Rocket.chat limits the open source community edition to 10,000 notifications per month. Depending on the usage, this may not be enough even for ten users. Yes, you could use the starter edition up to 25 users for free. But that is apples and oranges as it is not open source anymore.

And with Cloudron you can have multiple instances running, so if you are really on a budget, but want mobile notifications, each team of less than 10 people gets its own instance of Zulip.

[marcusquinn]

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[LoudLemur]

@marcusquinn said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

People resist anything they think is effort or unpopular.

That is so true! People never seem to ask themselves, "which is the wisest way?" only "which is the popular and easiest?"

If you are first mover, you will, for a while, be the most popular way.

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We're using Zulip and it's incredible. The organization of channels into sub-topics is perfect. The LaTeX integration is also huge for us. It has some nice quality of life features and just generally works really well for us. Cloudron integration would be great.

[LoudLemur]

Telegram is in the news lately and people are looking for alternatives. Support for Zulip on Cloudron would be timely and might bring in quite a large number of new users.

https://github.com/zulip/docker-zulip

[scooke]

@LoudLemur said in Zulip - Powerful open source group chat:

Support for Zulip on Cloudron would be timely and might bring in quite a large number of new users.

If this gets on Cloudron "soon", I'll do all I can do promote Cloudron and Zulip!!! Maybe I'll even use my code.

[crazybrad]

I am seeing more and more open source apps charging for certain features. I think this is becoming the norm rather than the exception. And Zulip is just one of many. As mentioned by others, $3.50/user/mo for mobile push notifications seems like a small price to pay. Without mentioning the Zulip competitor I am currently using, its rates are substantially more per user per month. Count me in on this one!

[andreasdueren]

As for Chat alternatives I'd by now recommend Matrix. I've been using it for a few years for personal communication and it's been a bit of a painful growth but can say that it's probably the best choice currently. I'ts free and I don't really see that changing since Element seems to have a good portion of paying customers and the new mobile apps are quite snappy. I've been test running them for a week or two and they feel super responsive and intuitive, very much like one would expect from a Telegram alternative.

NC Talk is great but really is more of a business solution.