Needs significant UI polish IMO. Anyone from the Zulip team care to chime in if there's appetite for this? I could take a look at contributing if so. Just the project getting to this level of maturity without significant polish sort of triggers the "maybe maintained by people who just don't value it that much" alarms?

It already is!

(EDIT: unless your reason for using Discord is PTT voice channels. Then it's not.)

OTOH you can always setup jitsi integration to let your users hop on a jitsi voice call. Or advertise a mumble server.

Sure, but I think this article makes a good point: there's a demographic that uses voice chat as more of a space, not an event: https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a...

I have been reusing the same jitsi "room" with my family for several months.