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SMS/MMS One of the other reasons I've stuck with Phosh is that at this time Phosh uses ModemManager and Plasma Mobile seems to use ofono directly, and the work on the ModemManager side is a lot further along. See this thread about where support for MMS is at. I have sending and receiving MMS (group texts and images) 100% working, though it took some doing. SMS worked great out of the box.
To get it working, you basically need a fork of mmsd (i.e. mmsd-tng) and you need an app that can pull the MMS messages in. The same developer who has worked on mmsd (kop316) has spent a good amount of time updating Chatty/Chats with his own custom branch, though it is quite barebones and really only allows receiving MMS images as file:// links in the UX. It sounds like Purism will eventually get around to implementing this in the UX but it may not be for months.
Slack/Discord This is the biggest gap for me so far. I haven't figured out how to get slack or discord to load in firefox. Those sites just redirect me to a page that tells me to download the Android app, even if I spoof the user agent. I use Slack for work, and Discord for communicating with some friends and family, so I'd still like to figure this out. The closest I've found for slack is slack-term which is terminal-based and seems to be abandoned. But it actually works (not well, but you can read and write messages), though the user experience is truly terrible on the phone, since you have to use the on-screen keyboard to do anything. Supposedly there is a matrix bridge, but I haven't tried it yet.
I recently found ArmCord but haven't gotten it working yet. I may spend some more time on this soon.
For Discord I would recommend gord. I don't know how it would look on a phone, but it supports arm64 Linux.