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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by dom96 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:23PM (#29260193)
There is a lot of parallels with Matrix here. I'm sad to say that the Element client just isn't polished enough to win me over Discord.

Most people, including myself, don't really care about the proprietary nature of Discord. I can fairly trivially move off Discord if it fails me so I don't really see the point in working harder to use Matrix.

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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by Tmpod on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:28PM (#29260247)
Give Cinny[1] a go. It's a new client built to be familiar to Discord users. I've switched to it as a daily driver, even tho it doesn't implement 100% the protocol. It has all the main features in a nice UI which is more than enough for me to daily drive it.

[1]: https://cinny.in

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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by DoItToMe81 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:37AM (#29263385)
Cinny is pretty, but with no link previews, no video embeds, no custom emoticons, and very limited user options, you'd be quite hard pressed to get people to leave their current Matrix clients for it, let alone Discord.
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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by anon9001 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:43AM (#29262321)
No voice channels :(
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Re:XMPP, a comeback story by Yoric on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:09AM (#29262864)
What are you missing from Discord?
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