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I’m not a fan of Discord for many aspects, but everything else is even worse. Matrix, even after all these years, is still a massive pain to use. It doesn’t hav
by solarkraft 5y ago
I’m not a fan of Discord for many aspects, but everything else is even worse. Matrix, even after all these years, is still a massive pain to use. It doesn’t have a way of putting together multiple related channels (I’m aware it’s coming), which is a Discord core feature. It also doesn’t have voice rooms, which may not be central to the FOSS community’s use of it, yet extremely useful for it.
There are other organization chat solutions like Slack (proprietary), Mattermost and Zulip (I’m trying out the latter with an organization). Those are the real alternatives to Discord, not Matrix (... yet ...). Neither of them (besides maybe Slack?) has an integration for voice channels (not “calls”).
- Hendrikto 5y agoRocketChat is pretty much self-hosted Slack, and it works great.
- andrewshadura 5y agoMatrix has communities which are nested channels.
- Arathorn 5y agoMatrix has had Spaces since May to let you group channels (rooms) together: https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/ https://element.io/blog/spaces-blast-out-of-beta/ Voice rooms are coming soon fwiw.
- itake 5y agohttps://gitter.im/ https://gitter.im/ Used to be popular for OSS. Not sure what happened to them but I haven’t seen them actively used in forever.