alt Hacker NewsMost Discord alternatives fail not on tech, but on polish.
Signal → private but bad for communities
Matrix → flexible but rough UX
XMPP → powerful but fragmented
Discord → centralized but frictionless
Users pick frictionless every time. We probably don’t need new apps or protocols we need a client that works well.
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> Matrix → flexible but rough UX
Matrix's UI/UX is actually really flexible with multiple clients.
You aren't struck with Element, you can even use TUI clients or any clients.
For the web, the one which I really love is cinny.
Cinny is really awesome, its UI/UX is better than discord imo.
I recommend people to check out the matrix ecosystem of clients to see what they like, because I also liked the fractal gnu app & it has tons of clients.
Is it just element or matrix.org, but it feels so slow to me?
All of those alternatives don't have voice chat in the way discord has (or Teamspeak/Mumble).
You should be able to create an account once and then join several servers (real servers) with the same account.