Slack is a severe resource hog and sometimes hangs or just runs slow. When 90% of the time, all I want from slack is basic IRC-like rooms/messages, this is ridi

Slack is a severe resource hog and sometimes hangs or just runs slow. When 90% of the time, all I want from slack is basic IRC-like rooms/messages, this is ridiculous (I don't mind it using those resources the other 10% of the time). You might think its not a problem because our machines are so powerful now, but it eats battery and occasionally I need to run a ton of stuff (eg a ton of docker containers) and having a chat application get in the way is rather annoying.