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Allow larger size for messenger chat window, similar to the help article sizing experience.

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  • February 21, 2024
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I’ve heard the opinionated stance that the messenger size is what it’s intended to be. I believe this is short-sighted, and Intercom should allow more options on the size of that core messenger experience.

When competing with other support applications on the end-user side, a larger window is needed for more complex conversations. (i.e. difficult network troubleshooting, endpoint configuration scripts, etc.) This is impacting our decision to adopt the product. Not every end user needing support is someone that needs simplified information. There are real cases where very long and complex conversations need to be conveyed in the messenger.

For example, if I’m trying to deliver a long codeblock or script, this can be unreadable to the end user.
 

Of course we know the default size of the messenger:

 

However we know this can be larger, as demonstrated by how the help center articles show (much larger), heck - you even have the expand/collapse modal top-right 


 

 

These sizings and resizing modals already exist, and should be made available to the core messenger experience. The existing sizings are too prescriptive; leave it up to your customer on how they want to deliver the best UX in messenger chats.

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Fully agree with this proposal. Our support conversations can be quite lengthy and our users often struggle with the small messenger window.

Additionally, many of our users can have dozens of tickets and conversations, and find it very difficult to find a specific one by scanning through the lists in the messenger. A larger window would allow more information to be shown and help with this problem too.

We are even considering building our own front end to solve these issues as they are so impactful - we love most of the Intercom help desk functionality but this could obviously lead us away from the platform altogether.


Jennifer K
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  • August 6, 2024

I encountered this today where there was actually a ‘bug’ that placed the messenger in a larger size for a minute:
 


So I know the functionality is actually here and the rendering straight up works.


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Concordo, faz todo sentido está demanda.


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The UX of Messenger doesn’t work outside of narrow use cases of infrequent use for short conversations. I am surprised that Intercom lacks in this area as Intercom generally appears to value modern UI/UX in its design. As @James Williams outlines above - longer conversations and customers with larger number of tickets find it difficult to use a small chat window that takes up less than 15% of their screen on a normal-res desktop/laptop.

The UI/UX patterns are there for Articles, it is a quick win to extend this to Messages too.


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  • July 2, 2025

This is such an incredibly annoying part of Intercom. We’re supporting a highly complex product, this is actively hampering us and even Zendesk does this so much better.