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They literally have 100s of millions of dollars in cash. What else should they do with that money besides polish their product?

outime 7y ago
If we play the guessing game I'd assume they'd like to make more money, and doing what it's been suggested on this thread is most likely not going to provide any benefit for Slack but more like the opposite. To make my point clear, I don't believe the current app is so terrible (performance-wise) that's making Slack lose any significant amount of users/revenue. On the other hand, adding new features to the (cross-platform) app, fixing bugs, etc in a timely fashion will help the business. I'd also include polishing here but rewriting the whole application from scratch for different OS is, IMHO, not worth it.
twblalock 7y ago
They have all of that money because they have made good decisions about their product so far. They focus on what matters most to users: features and reliability, not the framework the UI was written in.
- threeseed 7y ago
  Have you actually used the Slack client before ? It's anything but reliable. As you would expect from a glorified IRC client that somehow uses 2GB of RAM (lots of accounts).
  - twblalock 7y ago
    I use the Slack client every day at work on my Mac and it works fine. It is a lot more than a glorified IRC client —- if that’s all it is, then why has Slack built a successful business?
    - SomeOldThrow 7y ago
      They can sell it to management. The features irc provides and users want are precisely the selling points to authority.
      - empath75 7y ago
        Slack has been mostly bottom up sales, not top down, in my experience.
    - scarface74 7y ago
      Seeing that Slack isn’t profitable - by most definitions they aren’t “successful”.
  - lozenge 7y ago
    Most of their users only have one account at most, because they only work for one company. I think the multiple account feature is relatively neglected.
    - Nextgrid 7y ago
      I only use one account in Safari (not even using the app) and it's way more sluggish than you'd expect, and Safari at some point warns me that the tab is consuming significant amounts of memory and closing it will improve the responsiveness of my Mac. This is on a top of the line Macbook Pro 2018 with i7 and 16GB of RAM.
      - dingo_bat 7y ago
        If slack is slowing down your laptop (i7 and 16GB ram), it means your laptop is not up to par. I've read that macbooks have terrible thermal throttling under load, maybe that's what's happening to you.
- SomeOldThrow 7y ago
  Profitable decisions you mean.

outime 7y ago

If we play the guessing game I'd assume they'd like to make more money, and doing what it's been suggested on this thread is most likely not going to provide any benefit for Slack but more like the opposite. To make my point clear, I don't believe the current app is so terrible (performance-wise) that's making Slack lose any significant amount of users/revenue. On the other hand, adding new features to the (cross-platform) app, fixing bugs, etc in a timely fashion will help the business. I'd also include polishing here but rewriting the whole application from scratch for different OS is, IMHO, not worth it.

twblalock 7y ago

They have all of that money because they have made good decisions about their product so far. They focus on what matters most to users: features and reliability, not the framework the UI was written in.

threeseed 7y ago
Have you actually used the Slack client before ? It's anything but reliable. As you would expect from a glorified IRC client that somehow uses 2GB of RAM (lots of accounts).
- twblalock 7y ago
  I use the Slack client every day at work on my Mac and it works fine. It is a lot more than a glorified IRC client —- if that’s all it is, then why has Slack built a successful business?
  - SomeOldThrow 7y ago
    They can sell it to management. The features irc provides and users want are precisely the selling points to authority.
    - empath75 7y ago
      Slack has been mostly bottom up sales, not top down, in my experience.
  - scarface74 7y ago
    Seeing that Slack isn’t profitable - by most definitions they aren’t “successful”.
- lozenge 7y ago
  Most of their users only have one account at most, because they only work for one company. I think the multiple account feature is relatively neglected.
  - Nextgrid 7y ago
    I only use one account in Safari (not even using the app) and it's way more sluggish than you'd expect, and Safari at some point warns me that the tab is consuming significant amounts of memory and closing it will improve the responsiveness of my Mac. This is on a top of the line Macbook Pro 2018 with i7 and 16GB of RAM.
    - dingo_bat 7y ago
      If slack is slowing down your laptop (i7 and 16GB ram), it means your laptop is not up to par. I've read that macbooks have terrible thermal throttling under load, maybe that's what's happening to you.
SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Profitable decisions you mean.