Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread, November 12th, 2025 (#883)
DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 2 weeks agoI actually read about this but totally forgot about it 🤦🏻♂️
Zulip kinda looks like Discord yet seems to focus more on businesses communication/teams. Really interesting.
walden@wetshav.ing 2 weeks ago
They’re an open source Slack competitor. Some things are paywalled even for self-hosted instances. It looks like SSO is one of those things, but that’s no big deal. Mobile notifications are also paywalled but we got approved for a Community plan so that restriction is lifted.
I tried to make it as similar to the organization of the wetshaving Discord server. It’s much less bloated than Discord, but as usual for projects like this feature parity isn’t quite there.
There’s more work I can do to bring it up to snuff, too. ShavingInCT has made lots of fun bot type stuff on Discord, like a soap scent guessing game, etc. So far I’ve only managed to install pre-built bots, like a bot that tells dad jokes on command.
DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 2 weeks ago
Sounds interesting, I had to look up what SSO meant but I also think it’s not that big of a deal (I use ProtonPass for AutoFill + keeping track of my logins).
I guess almost everything is less bloated than Discord. I only still have that app for keeping in touch with former classmates, I seriously hate that UI.
If there’s a mobile app or PWA functionality, I might try out Zulip. There might be some overlap between the times where I am awake with some american “normal” time zones 🤔
walden@wetshav.ing 1 week ago
There 4 or 5 us there, just waiting for the day Discord gets shunned by the normals.