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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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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

No voice channels :(

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.

What are you missing from Discord?

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