Sorry for the delayed reply. Haven’t really played Minecraft, so can’t say, but I’ll say I run my own server and the family and I play for while til we get to a point we’ve done what we want, and I then go in and change the world sees and we get a new world and start all over.

I’ll give a vote for Zulip. It’s come a long way over the years, and if you really look at the way they’ve built it, it’s so much better than most options as there is a built in concept of context in threaded conversation.

Veloren has been a blast on my family’s self hosted system.