# What about Zulip?

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/what-about-zulip/197>\
**Category:** Discourse Feedback\
**Created:** [October 8, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/what-about-zulip/197 "2018-10-08T23:21:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ammaraskar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/ammaraskar/32/32_2.png) [@ammaraskar](https://discuss.python.org/u/ammaraskar)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/what-about-zulip/197/2 "2018-10-08T23:38:27Z")

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According to

> [@Python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-committers-is-dead-long-live-discuss-python-org/30):
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> Hello committers, since this got pretty long, here’s the tl;dr: we’re at the point where it is hard to make mailing lists work for us; we’re switching to Discourse; it’s better in many ways; go to [https://discuss.python.org/](https://discuss.python.org/) and create your account there; please do not post to python-committers for the remainder of the year to give Discourse a real shot. And now the long version. What’s the issue? During the core sprint in Redmond we discussed how we discuss. The overwhelming feel is that …

Zulip will act as a replacement for IRC whereas discourse is for the mailing lists.

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