On Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 4:06 PM Steve Piercy - Website Builder < web@stevepiercy.com> wrote:
My first impression of Zulip was "this feels like Slack". It is visually busier than Discourse, and I had a harder time understanding context. I had to step up the font twice to read it. I couldn't find how to hide the user list. I felt lost. Based on my first impressions, I probably wouldn't engage via Zulip.
I had a negative first impression with Discourse, too, as "yet another forum software", but it grew on me. Dozens of UX details were done just right, like "I wonder how I can do this thing... oh, there it is!". Or it could have been the Plone community is engaging, or a wealth of information already existed by the time I joined.
If you weren't aware, Discourse was designed by some of the same minds behind stack exchange. Just like they looked at QA and realized it was broken and created Stack Overflow, they turned their sights on forum software. I'm sure the Plone community is fantastic, but having fantastic software helps, too :) -W