Has anyone had luck replacing Slack with Discord? Threads are the major obviously missing feature for me at this point, but I think I might gladly trade that to

Has anyone had luck replacing Slack with Discord? Threads are the major obviously missing feature for me at this point, but I think I might gladly trade that to get a sane Markdown editor back, which Discord has. Also our team doesn't currently pay for Slack (small academic lab), so all our old message history is being held hostage, which has been a bit annoying.