# What about a Desktop app, to replace Slack and the like?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [10 Abril , 2015 03:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402 "2015-04-10T03:36:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [10 Abril , 2015 05:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402/5 "2015-04-10T05:44:32Z")

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Agreed.

More backstory:  
I am a member of three slack teams, two for the companies where I work directly, and one which is a loose group of 25 consultants who “chat” about what’s going on. It’s that group who really need Discourse - NOT chat.

I don’t mean to derail the direction of discourse, but yeah, for loosely affiliated groups, a copy of Discourse is going to be far more useful long term than instant messaging tools like slack. Having it in a desktop app means I can command-tab to it when needed, and not just forget its there like any other website.

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