Zulip

Avantages

C'est l'un des logiciels les plus facile d'utilisation. Totalement gratuit, Zulip permet une communication améliorer avec mon équipe, il permet également aux gestionnaires occupés de participer à des discussions en équipe. Grâce à ses fonctionnalités, il permet l'envoie et la réception facile des SMS

Inconvénients

C'est un super logiciel avec de meilleures fonctionnalités et je le recommande

Avantages

zulip outils tchat et de partages de fichier

Inconvénients

pas trop reconnus sur le plan marketing

Avantages

Partage de fichiers, assistance mobile, transcription par e-mail, intégration des réseaux sociaux

Inconvénients

C'est un logiciel adéquat et j'apprécie énormément ses fonctionnalités

Avantages

C'est un excellent outil pour avoir une communication au sein de l'équipe, nous a aidés à mieux communiquer sur différents canaux sans aucun problème

Inconvénients

La plate-forme mobile est assez restreinte et avec moins de fonctionnalités, j'aimerais y voir plus de fonctionnalités

Avantages

+ open source (https://github.com/zulip)+ Cloud Standard Plan free for Research (https://zulip.com/plans/) + messages do not get deleted after a certain period of time.+ Unique topics feature that helps keeping conversations together (invaluable when a large number of members and conversations. Much better than threads in Slack/Discord/etc).+ Several interfaces: Web, Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows), Mobile (ios, Android)+ strong and very active developing community https://zulip.com/development-community/+ rich formatting of messages: https://zulip.com/help/format-your-message-using-markdown+ integration and bots: https://zulip.com/integrations/

Inconvénients

+ Mobile app not too polished yet + Not easy to create sub-organizations at the moment (but the Team is working on that)

Avantages

The way they organize conversations into streams and topics is genius. I don´t have to search the conversations; I know exactly where everything is. This avoids turning everything into a chaotic mess. What sold me is that it's open-source. It's like the Swiss Army knife of team communication.

Inconvénients

Zulip has a short learning curve, but you must change how you manage conversations as a company. The streams and topics take some getting used to. The GUI isn´t the prettiest, but it is very functional.

Avantages

The topics are very useful for organizing discussion The ability to move material under the appropriate topics is very useful. You can see all of the important (active) discussions under a stream at a glance. It is great that you can mark certain topics as completed because this makes it easy to assign to-dos on the fly.

Inconvénients

The inability to easily upload photos or content from your phone (compared to Slack or other messaging apps) is a big downside. On OSX Zulip somehow keeps crashing. I also wish the team's custom emojis appeared at the top of the emoji list (true of Slack).

Avantages

The chat functionality in the web client is awesome for distributed teams - well, for any team, actually. Splitting in topics, all the formatting options, integration of automation really great.
If somebody has only used, let's say, MSTeams chat, Zulip will blow them out of water. From excitement.

Inconvénients

The mobile app didn't seem to be as polished - for example, the recent topic view could not be found anywhere.

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Avantages

We try to use and support smaller and open source technologies, and Zulip really fits the bill for team communications. I also like the fact that there's a self-hosting capability, though we haven't done it yet.

Inconvénients

I don't have any dislikes. It's a little rough around the edges compared to Slack and Teams, but that has never been a problem.

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Avantages

Compared to Slack or MS Teams, Zulip is much easier to keep organized using the topics (filters for topic within a channel).
Moreover, proper and clean formatting using Markdown and full LaTeX formula support (like with Mathjax) makes this my preferred tool for coordinating research collaborations.

Inconvénients

The clients are very slightly less polished compared to big business alternatives (but they do work reliably)

Avantages

Zulip's top feature is the ease with which you create named threads, you just type in the thread title, and then start a conversation.

By using named threads, conversations are way easier to search, and feel less like a chat, more live a live forum.

Inconvénients

Everything was great for me, I have recommended Zulip to my past employer and there are still using it, and I'm now using it in my team as well.

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Avantages

It's such high-quality software for it to be an open-source tool. Despite some advanced features requiring payment, you can get most of the fundamentals along with some really cool tools on the completely free plan.

Inconvénients

It would be nice if you could attach your personal Zoom room to the "Start Meeting" button. This may already be a feature, or be a paid feature, but I'm not entirely sure that it's available. The channel structure of Zulip relying on topic threads does require slightly more manual organization than a continuously running channel.

Avantages

The flexibility of setting up different group discussion channels along with the availability of private communications between individuals. We also like the ability to post a message in a channel from an e-mail source.

Inconvénients

The android, while quite usable when you get familiar with it could be improved for first users. Upon opening of the app, if there are no new messages, the blank screen and the icons do not visual clues about how to use the app. Also the zulip icon on the Android launcher screen sometimes fails to show an remindera new message has arrived.

Avantages

Open-source, free tier is fantastic, ease of use, conversation labels make it fairly easy to find threads

Inconvénients

I think Slack thread UI is a little more intuitive. I miss being able to branch off from an existing conversation and see number of replies to that thread.

Avantages

It is a very powerful messaging platform that allows text, image, video, latex, markdown, and code blocks with syntax highlighting.

Inconvénients

I have had a hard time getting others to adopt it, even though it is very good and free.

Avantages

Channels with topics, custom emojis, email alerts, mobile app, push notifications

Inconvénients

Don’t have any complaints other than sometimes the iOS app gets a little slow or out of sync with incoming push notifications

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Avantages

I’ve been using Zulip as an open source alternative to slack. I use it for quick communication with my research group of 15-20 students. It provides easy navigation and organisation into channels and topics. Unlike slack, it does not delete messages after 90 days!

Inconvénients

Some actions don’t feel intuitive. IIRC, various roles in the organisation have not worked as expected.
New posts get added to a ‘no topic’ - and need to be moved manually.
Adding a new person to a DM creates a new conversation- they can’t see older messages.

Avantages

It's a wonderful, smooth, secure alternative to Slack - perfect for our growing community.

Inconvénients

Nothing - all great! I only wish I had found it earlier.

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Avantages

Its ethos-driven approach and excellent functionality

Inconvénients

no major issues; sometimes slightly lacking in flexibility between channels/subjects

Avantages

It is exactly what we need for our research lab, and does not have superfluous features or bloat that makes the app unusable. We totally rely on it, and have yet to encounter any problems.

Inconvénients

Nothing. This is excellent software and i hope it remains available as is.

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Avantages

I really love the way Zulip organizes conversations into named topics. It relieves a lot of stress to know that even after a vacation or some time working on a different project, I can always quickly and easily catch up on everything that's been going on. No other chat application offers such a great conversation model.Zulip is also open source and offers both self-hosting and cloud hosting, including free hosting plans for open source and academic projects.

Inconvénients

The phone app can only log into one organization at a time, but this is not a big problem for me, since I don't enable mobile notifications, but .

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Avantages

The easy ways to organize information and people on separate channels. Usually I think being hyper-compartmentalized on other platforms makes things worse, here I think it actually works. I really like breaking down projects/topics more and pulling in who I want on a channel.

Inconvénients

The notifications on my browser aren't effective. It could be user error but I'm supposed to get desktop notifications and they don't appear, on my bookmarks bar the red # showing messages is very delayed. I also think visually when writing a reply in a channel, it gets messy so I often choose to start a new message than reply directly to one.

Avantages

Simple, direct, integrated with the tools we use (GitLab and GitHu mainly).
However, the thing I love the most is that it does its job and doesn't try to do everything (like managing my calendar and email).

Inconvénients

Bots are not intuitive, especially if you're using the could version.

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Avantages

It is a stable chat with all the features I currently expect. And I prefer Zulip over other systems because of its nicely working topic-based chat. Other systems call this also "threads". It sounds like a small thing but this can make discussions much more structured and searchable. Although it also requires a tiny bit more understanding e.g. how to move comments into other topics or similar but is mostly self-explanatory.

Inconvénients

The design is a bit old fashioned, but I still prefer this "clean UI" over other solutions.

I'm also not sure about the state of the video conferencing for zulip (I think they offered it via jitsi?), but I do not expect this from a chat system at the moment.

Also it seems that zulip chats are not e2e encrypted, but not my highest priority.

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Avantages

Open source
Flexibility
Diversity of functions
Improvement over time
Great desktop app

Inconvénients

The smartphone app could be improved, in particular the handling of several organizations simultaneously

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