14 DAY TRIAL // In a statement given to the press not too long ago, Facebook Messenger Vice President David Marcus revealed that users – and even Facebook staffers – are craving a desktop messaging client. Yet, somehow it’s not getting done.
Discussing Facebook’s selfie initiative to celebrate the New Year, Marcus shared an endearing story about how users started leveraging the bug reporting tool to send thanks to the development team for their work on Messenger. Pretty touching stuff. So naturally, you’d think that Facebook would be more inclined to respect their wishes in the future. Well, not quite so.
“We get a lot of requests from people, and Facebook employees, to build a desktop version – a native client,” said Marcus. “I do think we need to do a bunch of work on the desktop. Whether we’re going to build a specific native desktop client, I don’t know, but that’s a request we get a lot.”
Facebook Messenger is already on the desktop
Avid fans would deeply appreciate a solution developed by Facebook itself, but for now they’ll have to settle with third-party tools. Such as the one created by Daniel Büchele, a young developer from San Francisco.
Dubbed Goofy (for one reason or another), his Facebook Messenger client is basically just an interface, but one that takes your chats out of the web browser, organized, and neatly displayed wherever you want them appearing on your screen. You also get notifications, integration with Facebook at Work, and other cool stuff.
Goofy is currently limited to OS X, and we don’t know if Daniel plans to roll out a Windows version any time soon. It’s safe to say that putting a Windows build on offer would garner him a lot more popularity.
It's also worth noting that the Chrome Web Store has everyone covered with a bunch of Facebook Messenger solutions for the desktop as well.