I love everything about Slack except the damn chat window. Oh, and the pricing. The onboarding process is buttery smooth, and there are tons of integrations. But there&#x27;s so little in the way of communication density (even in &#x27;compact mode&#x27;) that I miss IRC.<p>We have a jira integration set up and every ticket consumes five lines plus plenty of whitespace - a few of those and there&#x27;s no real comms visible on the page. Every integration I&#x27;ve see consumes gobs of space. Similarly, flagging announcements by assigning a colour is almost worthless - the colour bar isn&#x27;t very visible (I prefer hipchat&#x27;s method, where the entire chatline gets the background colour set). Then there&#x27;s the problem of people&#x27;s actual chat messages being the least visible thing on the page - smaller and less noticable than names, integration notifications, what have you. But the onboarding is so easy, it just sucks users up.<p>Being able to see a conversation instead of bells and whistles? I miss that... but plain text scares regular users...