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Shouldn't this trade off be born by the market? If Electron is such a problem for Slack, users should be switching away to better engineered alternatives.
by pspeter3 9y ago
Shouldn't this trade off be born by the market? If Electron is such a problem for Slack, users should be switching away to better engineered alternatives.
- vintagedave 9y agoJust because Slack is useful enough people use it, doesn't meant the tradeoff they've made when developing indicates a high regard for their users' machines or experience.
- pspeter3 9y agoThat's fair. I wonder if users actually care in practice.
- vintagedave 9y agoThe other side to the market question is that this tradeoff may be why they're big in the market - because it allowed them to get to market quickly. So they made the trade-off knowingly, and for a reason that makes sense. The question then becomes, once established, do they improve the app?
- pspeter3 9y agoYeah, I think that's a key question as well.
- blep-arsh 9y agoI'm seeing lots of people around me just giving up on Slack and switching to Telegram. It's not a shining example of good engineering, but it's still noticeably leaner and faster.
- pspeter3 9y agoI haven't used Telegram in a professional setting but seems like a good solution. I'm hoping Matrix/Riot takes off and the open protocol enables a native experience.