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I, like many others, are starting to fall out of love with Slack. This may well be the straw that breaks the camels back. - Resource hogging - Buggy iOS app (e
by maxehmookau 9y ago
I, like many others, are starting to fall out of love with Slack. This may well be the straw that breaks the camels back.
- Resource hogging
- Buggy iOS app (especially on iPhone X)
- Missing accessibility features
- Lack of native app
They've taken $0.75bn in funding over 10 rounds and still suffer from some _basic_ issues.
- juststeve 9y ago750 million USD?
- tedd4u 9y agoLooks like $790M https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#section-funding-rounds https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#section-fundin...
- strkek 9y agoAlso: - Mentions: Many times I've tried to mention someone but Slack goes and picks the wrong person. If I'm typing `@johnd`, then it should be fairly evident that I'm trying to mention `@johndoe`; don't make me go through that UI when you should have enough info already. - Buggy snippets: Why do I have to go through a slow UI just to paste some code, when triple-backtick should be enough? - Triple-backtick: No code highlighting. And just try to copy its content; you'll be surprised when your clipboard looks as if passed through an `s/\n/\n\n/g` filter. - Scroll up: Scrolling up many pages above causes some weird jumps. --- Incidentally, the Discord people got all these things right.
- shrimpx 9y ago- Terrible, unacceptable mobile performance. Often unusable over semi-reliable networks. "Connecting..."