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Fingers crossed it has desktop clients that aren't written in Electron...
by lukepothier 9y ago
Fingers crossed it has desktop clients that aren't written in Electron...
- neilsimp1 9y agoHave you noticed Slack slow down/use too many resources as a result of being an Electron app? Honest question, I've never used Slack, but have used other Electron apps and never really have any issues.
- jasonthevillain 9y agoYes (crazy CPU/memory/battery usage). I switched to using it in a browser tab and it's been much better.
- montyf 9y agoI'm on a new computer and Slack takes at least a second to react to mouseclicks. It's completely ridiculous since, let's be honest here, Slack is a pretty basic chat app.
- tushar-r 9y agoThe Slack app on my mac kept using up a lot of RAM frequently. I'd have it running for a few days and suddenly the laptop would be unusable, with only ~200MB of RAM free. Slack would suddenly be using 2-3GB of memory. Kill slack and everything works fine. I've restored to using slack on Safari now. This problem still occurs, but reloading the slack tab is easier then finding and killing the slack process.
- scaryclam 9y agoWe moved away from slack due to it crashing peoples desktops (Mac, Windows and Linux all have had this problem). I've not used other electron apps though, so maybe I'll stop blaming the underlying tech :)
- Trufa 9y agoWhy is that? I have had a great experience with slack on desktop, I was skeptical but it turned out great.
- joeblau 9y agoThis is exactly what I came here to find out. I like most things bout Slack, except when it starts behaving like a web page in the "native" app.
- harisamin 9y agoWould either of you be interested in this? https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15194413&goto=threads%3Fid%3Dharisamin%2315194413 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=15194413&goto=threads%...