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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.

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.

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.

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...

Discord sample for comparison:

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.

If you're willing to mess with the CSS, there's always things like beautifuldiscord: https://github.com/leovoel/BeautifulDiscord

YES! Awesome thank you. Going to give this a shot.

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.

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.

It support almost every language, SQL, HTML, JS and probably more.

Ok... I might have been wrong. Native MD support is kind of nice.

It might have been a little while since I tried.

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?

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

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