Telegram, one of my least favorite messaging apps, has finally done a revamp of web.telegram.org and it no longer has abysmally awful UX, but rather similar UX to things like Discord, Zulip, Matrix, Slack, etc...
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The native app has Telegram Folders, which are similar to Element Spaces, but still inferior to Discord/Slack/Zulip-style orgs.
Telegram Web still doesn't appear to have support for them? But maybe coming soon?
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Spaces in Element are also only a very incomplete version of what they're ultimately meant to become. It's supposed to become a lot more like a Discord server with the ability to require membership in it to use the rooms and handle permissions/roles across them there, etc.
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Element and the underlying Matrix protocol are definitely meant to become competitive with Discord.
In fact, I think they're spending too much time chasing that prematurely as opposed to refining what exists and replacing Synapse with Dendrite.
Replaces IRC/XMPP well already.