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Discord Alternatives, Ranked (taggart-tech.com)
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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Matrix is probably the most well funded and supported open source platform that might be able to compete with Discord but even then it’s not a fair fight.

Sadly most people won’t leave discord. People will forget about this next week.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

They should use some of the funds for UX.

For gods sakes copy the Discord UI EXAXTLY and replicate the backend with Matrix. That’s it.

Not whatever they’re doing now.

[–] itsmistermoon@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Look at Cinny if you're looking for a Discord-like experience

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

copy the Discord UI EXAXTLY

Please don't. Please for the love of god don't

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 36 minutes ago

I think that is one of the problems. People want an exact copy of discord but don’t ask if discord even has the perfect layout and if it should be copied directly. Anyway there are clients like cinny which look similar and other chat platforms like stroat(previously revolt) and spacebar which look exactly like discord and they are not doing massively well either so shrugs.