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All alternative products I have used so far have worse UI.

Slack is always laggy and does not even handle markdown well. Recently moved around buttons for huddles and people keep searching for where that button is. Also annoying, that pictures can only be attached to the end of a message, forcing me to reference with something like [1][2] and so on.

MS Teams: haha just joking. Of course it cannot even be considered close to an alternative!

Discord: Was good some time ago, becomes ever more bloated and heavy now.

Element: When I tried it some time ago, it was very unclear how threads actually work and they did not seem to have any visual separation from other messages, that simply came later in a channel. Basically messages know they belong to a thread, but visually you almost cannot see it. Not sure, if that is still the case.

Zulip is snappy and works well with markdown. I find it looks much cleaner than Slack and others.