There are many Discord 'alternatives' but what if instead of trying to replace it with something that (kind of) works the same way, we actually got down to JTBD and first principles? To me, Discord is a hot mess, UX-wise. I've been working on this problem for years and it's so interesting what we think we "need" versus the anti-patterns many of the features come with. Considering holding some UX-focused hackathons to imagine better approaches, look at folk technology dot org.