It's been more than six months since we invited Zulip's Alya Abbott on the pod and decided to kick the tires to see if Zulip could replace Slack for Changelog's community. The answer has been a resounding **YES**! Here's why.

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Changelog has transitioned from Slack to Zulip for their community communication, finding Zulip more effective due to its open-source nature, threading system, and community-focused approach. Zulip offers features like open public chats and self-hosting options, providing higher quality conversations and flexible integrations. Though the move wasn't seamless for everyone, the resulting interactions have been more engaging.

Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!

I’m not sure why the TLDR tries to enumerate Zulip’s advantages (I have no idea what they are, to be honest) without discussing the problems with Slack and why Zulip is better. There isn’t enough context to be honest.
Zulip’s UI isn’t particularly clean in my opinion.

to be honest, slack UI is more appealing to me

If you guys says the UI sucks, I’m not even opening the page. UI is important for me to want to spend time with an app.

From UI perspective it looks like its from early 20s