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> I wonder how much longer Slack’s web client is going to remain a first class product? It never was? The Android client takes 10 seconds to start, runs my dev
by EdiX 8y ago
> I wonder how much longer Slack’s web client is going to remain a first class product?
It never was? The Android client takes 10 seconds to start, runs my device hot and the UI is so bad that the first time I tried to respond to a thread I couldn't figure out how to get out of the thread view.
The desktop client uses 1GB of memory gobbles my CPU and takes 20 seconds to start.
The "least bad client", the web client still takes 10 seconds to start, for no obvious reason. Last week I looked into it, it turns out that every time the client makes a request to the server it the TTFB is 300 to 500ms, on a connection with 40ms ping. So their backend is just as fucked as all their clients.
Even their email notifications don't work: every time I click on the link they send me it doesn't take me to the mention!!!
They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped.
- FlorianRappl 8y ago> They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped. One of the reasons is the lack of competition, e.g., we use Microsoft Teams instead, but its also an electron app with the same problems (and takes ages to start).
- EdiX 8y agoI guess this must be it. IRC could in theory do everything Slack does but setting up a server is a pain and shiny clients are rare... I wonder about the rest of the competition, for a while everybody was using hipchat, I never used it myself, I wonder why nobody talks about it anymore.
- katheriin 8y agoThere is competition out there, they just haven't made enough noise yet. See Fleep for example: https://fleep.io/ https://fleep.io/, Rocket Chat etc.
- AHTERIX5000 8y ago>They did corner the market so clearly they must be doing something, but really I just can't see it. I'm completely stumped. I've been wondering about this for a while now. Slack feels more like "just good enough" in terms of UX than anything special. It's just a chat application with terribly slow clients but somehow everyone is using it.