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Gitter vs Zulip: What are the differences?

  1. Cost: Gitter is free to use for public repositories, while Zulip offers a free plan with limited features and pricing for additional features.
  2. Organization of Conversations: Gitter uses a linear chat system where all messages are displayed in order, while Zulip employs a topic-based threading system for more organized discussions.
  3. Integration: Zulip supports a wide range of integrations with third-party services and tools, whereas Gitter has limited integration options.
  4. Notification System: Zulip offers more advanced notification settings, allowing users to customize how they receive alerts for different conversations, while Gitter has basic notification options.
  5. User Interface: Zulip has a more modern and visually appealing interface compared to Gitter, offering a better user experience.

In Summary, Gitter and Zulip differ in terms of cost, conversation organization, integration, notification system, and user interface.

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From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."

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Arnaud Lemercier
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We use Discord to tracking some action and errors (logs / alerting / assertion). it's free and simple to use with mobile application et notifications

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We use Slack because we can let "tools talk to us" and automate processes in our dev team using bots.

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Julien Tanay
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Our Discord Server is our n°1 community stop; we gather feedback from our users from here, discuss about new features, announce new releases, and so on.

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Pros of Gitter
Pros of Zulip
  • 63
    Github integration
  • 55
    Free
  • 45
    Markdown support
  • 19
    Markdown
  • 17
    Graceful integration
  • 16
    Project-oriented
  • 15
    MARKDOOOOWN
  • 12
    IRC bridge
  • 9
    Integrates with everything
  • 8
    LaTeX
  • 4
    Apps available for most platforms
  • 2
    Cross-repository issue reference
  • 2
    Github login
  • 1
    IRC support
  • 1
    My new fav'rite thing is on it
  • 1
    Very fast work
  • 1
    Very open
  • 1
    Now open source
  • 1
    Open source
  • 1
    Free unlimited archives
  • 1
    Open access (no invitation needed)
  • 1
    Single account for all communities
  • 1
    Free, open & free hosting
  • 65
    Open source
  • 48
    Great Community
  • 40
    Extensive developer documentation
  • 38
    Powered by Python
  • 34
    Clean & Smooth UI
  • 26
    Full text search
  • 25
    Dozens of integrations
  • 25
    Threading model
  • 21
    On-premise deployment
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    Fully internationalized
  • 12
    Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • 5
    Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics
  • 3
    Awesome open source alternative to Slack
  • 3
    Runs very well
  • 2
    Very Nice
  • 1
    Mobile Push Notification
  • 1
    LDAP Integration

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Cons of Gitter
Cons of Zulip
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    Sends data to US Gov
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    Integration with most of well known services
  • 0
    The interface require a lot of overhaul

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What is Gitter?

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

What is Zulip?

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.

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What are some alternatives to Gitter and 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.
Discord
Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Riot
Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.
Mattermost
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
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