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I would love to have an alternative to which some of the communities I am currently in can migrate. Not easy to find anything that is like Discord.
Matrix is a possibility but its sometimes a bit of a hard sell to people.
Matrix IS NOT user friendly nor is it for breakfast
Its really not that bad. If you dont mess with the encryption stuff too much then even an idiot like me was able to drive it well enough.
yeah, was going to say I think Matrix is the reasonable alternative
Matrix is not going to catch on. It is too intense for the average person. My friend didn't want to bother with all the security features and couldn't sign in without issue constantly.
That's only really a problem if it's end to end encrypted right?
But...it is.
Last I remember using it. it was a room setting or something. I don't remember exactly, but it was always as pain with the friends I had it toggled on with, but otherwise fine.
Yeah but it's on by default. And it's not clear at all that you can turn it off or how.
Ah yeah, I don't know if I agree with it as default when it's janky. But I get their logic.
I've used Matrix and it's... a bit unwieldy to say the least.
I dont know if Stoat (ex Revolt) is as good but it seems to be the most direct competitor
Yeah looks like it. Thanks. Maybe I take a closer look at that one.
I’ve been told to try Stoat a lot today, but the Discord news seems to have hugged their signup system to death.
Well thats good and bad at the same time. I will try today as well. Maybe Stoat can get a critical number of users going to get this really started.
Zulip is good.
It looks interesting. Do you know if I as a user can join multiple groups? Because I am part of a few servers on Discrod with widely different topics and its not an option to have one community and have all people join there.
I feel like a modern IRC client would cover it wouldn't it? What am I missing?
My friends tell me it's screen share that they want and why Mumble etc. won't cut it.
Screen share, specifically with low latency, is a huge feature thats really widely used. Everything from watching videos together, to playing RPGs via the shared screen, to coaching esports games. When I tried Matrix before (like a year ago) the multi-second latency on screen sharing was what made me give up on it.
Teamspeak3 still works fine for me
Slack is basically the same thing as a platform
Slack needs payment to have group calls. Also it would be nice to move something open and ideally something self-hosted.
matrix maybe?
Matrix is no where near the level of discord, if all you need is a chat app than ya sure, simplex or Matrix work great. If you want feature parity... Definitely not either of those two, as they are just glorified sms/group text apps.
Plus there's the fact that Matrix is heavily user unfriendly
Well don't downvote the comment that answered your question. If you're looking for something that's exactly exactly exactly Z, then the answer will only ever be Z
You're getting downvoted because your answer was bad. Slack isn't "not exactly like discord", slack is not even remotely close to a replacement for discord unless you are only considering text based lobbies. Slack is built around enterprise IM as a paid service, discord is built around gaming voice chat as a free service.
If someone says that they want to replace their Tesla and you offer a golf cart to them while saying, "they're both electric, so same difference", don't be surprised by others finding that unhelpful.
Believe it or not. I did not downvote you. Seems crazy but there are other people here and promoting Slack seems to be a not so popular opinion.
Slack requires payment for messages to persist over 90 days. We used to use Slack for an organization I'm part of. We moved to Discord when that was introduced which is kinda funny.