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I could really use this seeing as... https://twitter.com/NickPoorman/status/737647940026634240 https://twitter.com/NickPoorman/status/737647940026634240

• joshfriend 10y ago
  Wow, you really need to be in less slack teams...
  • elsurudo 10y ago
    That's no excuse for 17GB of memory usage...
  • PhasmaFelis 10y ago
    That memory footprint is inexcusable even if he were literally on one thousand Slack teams. Functionally, Slack is more or less a shiny wrapper on IRC, and you can run dozens of IRC channels in a few megabytes, if that.
• laumars 10y ago
  I connect to Slack from my favourite IRC client (Irssi) after getting fed up with the memory that the official client used. It's not as retro-cool as this C64 port but it fits my command line orientated workflow better than the Electron app did and allows me to build my own client-side plugins in Perl.
  • blakespot 10y ago
    Use 'Glass TTY VT220' font (at 20 point) in your terminal app and your retro-cool game will increase two levels.
• maccard 10y ago
  Yep I put a ticket in for something simialr(grows to about 2GB every 2 days or so), and was told it's expected behaviour!!
  • flukus 10y ago
    Everyone says scrolling back through history is a feature, but it grinds to a halt before you can scroll back very far anyway.
    • laumars 10y ago
      Historic messages don't need to be cached in RAM if it's several pages above the proverbial fold. However I'm not convinced it's just historic messages that's eating up the memeory. IRC clients aren't this bad even with thumbnail support like Slack. Whuchever way you look at Slack, it's needlessly wasteful.
• amiga-workbench 10y ago
  I really am sick to death of applications built ontop of Electron Shell et al, what an utter waste.
• jyriand 10y ago
  And I thought that my 700MB was bad.
  • sitkack 10y ago
    My slack hovers at only around 920 real mem and 1.6GB total.