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Wow I'm quite surprised at all the negativity towards slack on here... My team hasn't experienced most of these issues and we love using it.

• Tokala 9y ago
  I think a lot of it comes from the inflated rhetoric they present themselves with. It's a chat application, it's not curing cancer. See: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067246/the-unexpected-design-challenge-behind-slacks-new-threaded-conversations https://www.fastcompany.com/3067246/the-unexpected-design-ch...
• pdimitar 9y ago
  So your mobile notifications work without fail? On Android I receive one out of 20 notifications. The desktop app is horribly laggy -- and my computer can handle a lot. I have 2x 75Mbps internet links that stream 1080p effortlessly so it's not my net either. And you're pleased with the lack of granularity of the notification settings, too?
  • TremendousJudge 9y ago
    >The desktop app is horribly laggy Just try this out on linux (maybe works on other OSs): open a system manager with a real time CPU usage chart. Open the Slack desktop app (or a session in Chrome, it's the same). Open a channel (#random should work). Scroll up. Watch usage of all your CPU cores skyrocket. Stop scrolling. CPU usage goes back down. They to hog all of my cores just to scroll up a list of messages. BTW, this doesn't happen in Firefox: scrolling up doesn't cause CPU usage to go up measurably
    • pdimitar 9y ago
      Check out my other comment so I don't pollute the thhread with copy-pasting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279602
  • redwood 9y ago
    Android app is a total disaster. Unreads? No you can't see them!