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Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rathe
by mattbillenstein 9y ago
Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?
- tomc1985 9y agoIt's as if they care more about pretty and shiny than quality code.
- slg 9y agoIt's as if the fact they are the prettiest and shiniest chat app is a big reason they got that much venture money in the first place.
- oatmealsnap 9y agoYup. It's a got to be about balance, though. Personally I find their app fast enough, and it never ·rarely) gives me issues.
- tomc1985 9y agoAnd we're OK with it... That's what needs to change.
- paulcole 9y agoBut don't most computers have many gigs of RAM? If it's not really hurting performance, who cares?
- trav4225 9y agoThis is precisely why most software is terrible. :)
- m_sahaf 9y agoI had a Java II professor who often said in class something along the lines of "between speed and memory, use more memory. Memory is cheap." So it's, somewhat, passed attitude through academia to students.
- mattbillenstein 9y agoYou must work at Slack... The point is, I'm using one org, dozen channels, etc -- some are seeing several times this amount of resource usage and with seemingly endless supplies of capital and users complaining, it seems to get less attention than it deserves.
- eertami 9y agoI gave up on the web UI and started using the IRC gateway. Doesn't really miss anything for my usage, but there's always things like wee-slack[1] that offer threads, reactions, etc in an IRC client. [1]: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack
- mattbillenstein 9y agoAh, word, I didn't know this even existed -- I might look into it.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoBecause when you have several similar programs, which all use a GB of RAM due to poor optimisation, then you run out of RAM.
- revelation 9y agoNot to mention this is a fucking sidescroller that lags during the transition. It's 2017 and they can't get it to scroll fluidly.
- eridius 9y agoWhat browser are you using? It's perfectly fluid for me in Safari.
- lovich 9y agoI just tried it in Firefox mobile and it was freezing for me constantly
- OhSoHumble 9y agoI'm on the latest version of Chrome and it's choppy.
- eridius 9y agoWhat OS? I just tried Chrome on macOS and it's still smooth.
- sna1l 9y agoThey've raised like $800M! Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity
- mattbillenstein 9y agoomfg, it was worse than I remembered ;)
- bentruyman 9y agoBecause this 404 page was probably made on a Friday afternoon while fundamental issues inherent with their core framework choices takes longer to fix. Just a guess.