Having used Facebook mainly for the messaging functionality for years now, I'm amazed I never knew messenger.com existed. It's interesting to consider that, although I use an ad-blocker, it must be in Facebook's interests to keep people on the main site in order to throw adverts at them, further infiltrate their lives etc.

This. Since I've started using messenger.com, I check facebook.com about once a week. Was really easy to switch and saved a lot of mental energy and attention that would have went for random facebook posts, etc.

I love messenger.com

It's a way better interface for just chatting then the Facebook site and they have been adding new features to it regularly.

My only complaint is that it refuses to work on mobile (even though the desktop site is very responsive). It just pushes you at the app.

I prefer to use Franz[1]

It's an electron-based app which allows you to load the web versions of Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack and many more.

[1] http://meetfranz.com/

That’s great! I had no idea messenger.com even existed...