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Or just use Discord. Yes it is "meant" for gamer. But it does everything Slack already do. And better. My team use it.

rublev 9y ago
If only it didn't have the whole gigantic material-y 2.0 UI with gigantic everything. I want a tiny tiny customizable window with everything compact and anything non necessary gone.
- perezdev 9y ago
  I would be curious to know which things you're referencing. Because I'm looking at it right now and it mostly seems fine. No icons or anything seem overly large.
  - adsfqwop 9y ago
    Try and squeeze discord into a 400x400 window (or something similarly small and out of the way) to put in the corner of your screen. Mission impossible. Squeeze an IRC client into 400x400, and you'll still have plenty of room to read what's going on. IRC sample (it's not 400x400, but you should get the idea): http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0.7.2-linx-main-window.png http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0... Discord sample for comparison: http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-chat/discord-screenshot-01.jpg http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-ch... I think there's a lot that could be done to make Discord more desktop real estate friendly. It's one semi-dealbreaker for me too. I can't have one single chat app require almost one whole new monitor.
    - notamy 9y ago
      If you're willing to mess with the CSS, there's always things like beautifuldiscord: https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord
      - rublev 9y ago
        YES! Awesome thank you. Going to give this a shot.
    - niekie 9y ago
      You should be able to get a more IRC-like message view by changing to the "compact" message view under the appearance settings for Discord.
awareBrah 9y ago
yes, Discord is wonderful and I see them taking some of slack's greatest features.
mawburn 9y ago
We use Discord on my team for voice chat, and it's amazing for that... but the text chat and integrations are seriously lacking. Talking code in it just downright sucks.
- haskaalo 9y ago
  It support almost every language, SQL, HTML, JS and probably more.
  - mawburn 9y ago
    Ok... I might have been wrong. Native MD support is kind of nice. It might have been a little while since I tried.
darklajid 9y ago
This seems to be open source and something you can host yourself. Discord isn't, right? It's a nicer Skype, if we're talking deployment and freedom?

If only it didn't have the whole gigantic material-y 2.0 UI with gigantic everything. I want a tiny tiny customizable window with everything compact and anything non necessary gone.

perezdev 9y ago
I would be curious to know which things you're referencing. Because I'm looking at it right now and it mostly seems fine. No icons or anything seem overly large.
- adsfqwop 9y ago
  Try and squeeze discord into a 400x400 window (or something similarly small and out of the way) to put in the corner of your screen. Mission impossible. Squeeze an IRC client into 400x400, and you'll still have plenty of room to read what's going on. IRC sample (it's not 400x400, but you should get the idea): http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0.7.2-linx-main-window.png http://www.ubuntugeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/smuxi-0... Discord sample for comparison: http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-chat/discord-screenshot-01.jpg http://static.filehorse.com/screenshots-mac/messaging-and-ch... I think there's a lot that could be done to make Discord more desktop real estate friendly. It's one semi-dealbreaker for me too. I can't have one single chat app require almost one whole new monitor.
  - notamy 9y ago
    If you're willing to mess with the CSS, there's always things like beautifuldiscord: https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord
    - rublev 9y ago
      YES! Awesome thank you. Going to give this a shot.
  - niekie 9y ago
    You should be able to get a more IRC-like message view by changing to the "compact" message view under the appearance settings for Discord.

awareBrah 9y ago

yes, Discord is wonderful and I see them taking some of slack's greatest features.

mawburn 9y ago

We use Discord on my team for voice chat, and it's amazing for that... but the text chat and integrations are seriously lacking. Talking code in it just downright sucks.

haskaalo 9y ago
It support almost every language, SQL, HTML, JS and probably more.
- mawburn 9y ago
  Ok... I might have been wrong. Native MD support is kind of nice. It might have been a little while since I tried.

darklajid 9y ago

This seems to be open source and something you can host yourself. Discord isn't, right? It's a nicer Skype, if we're talking deployment and freedom?