In reply to Andreas Lopez.

“Absorbing” Discord would be more like “convincing” Discord. New Vector is tiny compared to Discord; compare New Vector’s $18.1M total funding to Discord’s >$200M. Not to mention the disparity in usage numbers between Riot and Discord (see https://discord.com/company for stats).

I heard about Matrix for the first time this year, and I hope it is the future of messaging. But this is like suggesting diaspora* or mastodon “look into absorbing” Facebook or Twitter. I would guess that platforms used by developers (I’ve used Slack and Gitter myself) are the best point of entry for Matrix.