I am not asking for anything, I am merely proposing and arguing for what I believe is the best option. In the end, I am not a maintainer and cannot make this decision. I am willing to spend time helping to centralise the community and advertise for this potential Zulip if it happens, but I can’t force it if people don’t want to, and I certainly cannot force the maintainer. And really, I’m not trying to have a heated debate 
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Also, as mentioned before, I am personally not personally unhappy with how the compiler is maintained, I have contributed in the past and what has prevented me from contributing more is mainly time.
I am aware that it would not happen overnight. It would be a slow process, and would require a lot of advertising and communication. That being said, it would only work if the most active people in the community actually accept to move to Zulip.
Again, this all started from this blog post from Kiran and this response from Gabriel. Gabriel asked “If someone in your position feels unable to approach maintainers to offer contributions, what of newcomers?”. I am proposing what I believe is a step in the good direction, but in the end, i have no control and can only answer with what I know have witness working for other community.
Ultimately, I feel like I have almost engaged more with the Rust community than the OCaml community, even though I barely programmed in Rust, and my feeling is that it’s mainly because of how the community is structured, but I could be wrong.