A group of us in the Julia open source community have been trying to migrate to Zulip [1] from Slack. There's a lot of resistance from some community members, but those of us who made the switch are quite happy.
The topics model is fantastic, having proper markdown and LaTeX support is also killer.
The development team for Zulip is also really responsive and friendly. Coming from Slack, it was a breath of fresh air to be able to make an issue on their GitHub issue tracker and have fast, friendly thoughtful replies and quick action.
The topics model is fantastic, having proper markdown and LaTeX support is also killer.
The development team for Zulip is also really responsive and friendly. Coming from Slack, it was a breath of fresh air to be able to make an issue on their GitHub issue tracker and have fast, friendly thoughtful replies and quick action.
[1] https://julialang.zulipchat.com/#recent_topics if you wanna check it out