---
title: "Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/our-slack-is-dead-long-live-zulip--xksgq0nrh
source_url: https://changelog.com/posts/our-slack-is-dead-long-live-zulip
type: article
source: "Changelog"
published: 2025-05-08T20:48:33.958Z
updated: 2025-05-08T20:48:47.954Z
tags: ["open-source", "community", "slack"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 148
comments: 26
language: en
---

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# Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip!

**[Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/changelog)** · 4 min read · 148 upvotes · 26 comments

## Summary

Changelog has transitioned from Slack to Zulip for their community communication, finding Zulip more effective due to its open-source nature, threading system, and community-focused approach. Zulip offers features like open public chats and self-hosting options, providing higher quality conversations and flexible integrations. Though the move wasn't seamless for everyone, the resulting interactions have been more engaging.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://changelog.com/posts/our-slack-is-dead-long-live-zulip>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@harryphung** · 13 upvotes

> I'm not sure why the TLDR tries to enumerate Zulip's advantages (I have no idea what they are, to be honest) without discussing the problems with Slack and why Zulip is better.  There isn't enough context to be honest.
>
> Zulip's UI isn't particularly clean in my opinion.

**@kaelmorgan** · 13 upvotes

> to be honest, slack UI is more appealing to me

**@aton** · 5 upvotes

> Is this an ad ?

**@johnmac** · 2 upvotes

> If you guys says the UI sucks, I'm not even opening the page. UI is important for me to want to spend time with an app.

**@devdailyadmin** · 2 upvotes

> From UI perspective it looks like its from early 20s

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Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#slack](https://daily.dev/tags/slack)

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