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Nice idea and good luck :)

>Join our Discord to discuss ideas, early design proposals and upcoming features

Yeah, no...disheartening to see this many FOSS developers opting for Discord for realtime chat.

Why disheartening? What would you prefer?

It's a walled garden that was hostile to third-party clients from the start. It asks for phone number to sign up. The client is slow (both web version and electron version). Ghost notifications and spams in DM. No way to find channels to join.

Matrix, IRC...at least set up a bridge to one if you are going Discord

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