Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
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.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Ontimp@feddit.org 1 week ago
There is a difference between funding of the Matrix foundation and the matrix.org instance vs. funding for the companies working in the ecosystem. The Matrix foundation has been struggling financially, yes. But the companies using and contributing to the Matrix standard are doing quite well from what I know - though they should probably cough up a little more money to find the overhead and the public matrix infrastructure imo
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Please don’t. Please for the love of god don’t
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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.
itsmistermoon@piefed.social 1 week ago
Look at Cinny if you’re looking for a Discord-like experience
Ontimp@feddit.org 1 week ago
Which client do you refer to regarding the bad UX, Element Web?
Matrix is just the protocol. There are a bunch of different clients though that all implement Matrix but are made by different people: matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/