> I wouldn't turn down a job solely based upon their reliance on a tool like Zulip, but it would definitely be a factor in my decision. This resonated with me,

> I wouldn't turn down a job solely based upon their reliance on a tool like Zulip, but it would definitely be a factor in my decision. This resonated with me, at my current company hundreds (maybe thousands, I don't know) of employees' daily chat goes through a self hosted RocketChat instance. For all I know, based on the performance, that server is running on the cheapest Raspberry Pi. Everyone on the team just kind of accepted that sometimes, you can't connect for minutes (sometimes hours), the search is slow and not very powerful, the features and integrations are lacking. It's so frustrating when you want to contact someone, you can't, because it won't load, if you want to add an integration (that you are used to from your last company and would make things much easier for everyone), you can't, because there are no good integrations for RocketChat. In my opinion, terrible internal chat and penny pinching is a good sign of a dysfunctional organization. Ten dollars per employee per month sounds expensive, until you realize that your employees wait an hour a week for the self hosted tool to load and are now blocked because of that.