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Pros of Zulip
Pros of Discourse
- Open source28
- Fast19
- Email digests13
- Better than a stereotypical forum9
- Perfect for communities of any size8
- It's perfect to build real communities7
- Made by same folks from stackoverflow7
- Built with Ember.js7
- Great customer support6
- Made by consolidated team with a working business3
- Translated into a lot of Languages3
- Configurations3
- Easy flag resolution2
Pros of Zulip
- Open source63
- Great Community47
- Extensive developer documentation40
- Powered by Python38
- Clean & Smooth UI34
- Full text search26
- Dozens of integrations25
- Threading model23
- On-premise deployment21
- Fully internationalized16
- Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)11
- Its very good forsearching and chatting with topics4
- Awesome open source alternative to Slack3
- Runs very well3
- Very Nice2
- LDAP Integration1
- Mobile Push Notification1
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Cons of Discourse
Cons of Zulip
Cons of Discourse
- Heavy on server3
- Difficult to extend2
- Notifications aren't great on mobile due to being a PWA2
Cons of Zulip
- Integration with most of well known services1
- The interface require a lot of overhaul0
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What is Discourse?
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.
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 Discourse and Zulip?
Disqus
Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people to interact on websites using its system. Commenters can build reputation and carry their contributions from one website to the next.
Flarum
Flarum is the next-generation forum software that makes online discussion fun. It's simple, fast, and free.
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.
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.
XenForo
It is a commercial Internet forum software package written in the PHP programming language.