Discourse vs Zulip

Overview

Discourse

Stacks276

Followers246

Votes115

GitHub Stars45.5K

Forks8.7K

Zulip

Stacks223

Followers344

Votes366

GitHub Stars23.7K

Forks8.9K

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Detailed Comparison

Discourse	Zulip
Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. Replies are attached to the bottom and top of each post, so you can optionally expand the context of the conversation – without breaking your flow.	Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats.
Remembers your place;Log in with … anything;Paste to share images;Search that actually works;Scalable moderation;Bring your friends;Your stuff belongs to you;Comprehensive API	Apps for every platform; Open source; Seamless integrations with everything you use
Statistics
GitHub Stars 45.5K	GitHub Stars 23.7K
GitHub Forks 8.7K	GitHub Forks 8.9K
Stacks 276	Stacks 223
Followers 246	Followers 344
Votes 115	Votes 366
Pros & Cons
Pros 28 Open source 19 Fast 13 Email digests 9 Better than a stereotypical forum 8 Perfect for communities of any size Cons 3 Heavy on server 2 Difficult to extend 2 Notifications aren't great on mobile due to being a PWA	Pros 65 Open source 48 Great Community 40 Extensive developer documentation 38 Powered by Python 34 Clean & Smooth UI Cons 1 Integration with most of well known services 0 The interface require a lot of overhaul
Integrations
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What are some alternatives to Discourse, Zulip?

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

HipChat

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

RocketChat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Flowdock

Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

Microsoft Teams

See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.