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Ask HN: Why does the Slack desktop app suck so much?

• deca6cda37d0 7y ago
  Not keeping the platforms UI Guidelines in mind. Apps should adapt to the platforms they run on.
• mailslot 7y ago
  It’s Javascript running in a stand-alone browser?? This is the future of web tech.
• mtmail 7y ago
  The headline boils down to "<name of software> sucks" (close to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question). Can you list a couple of arguments or detail?
• mattbillenstein 7y ago
  Bit of a leading question - it used to be worse, use gigs of ram, etc. I don't hate it anymore for this, but I must say, I'm not a fan of the growing number of features and complexity...
  • luckylion 7y ago
    What did you do to make it use less ram? I'm in three workspaces, two mostly inactive, and I need to shut it down every few days to free up a few gigs. There's not even a lot going on there, somebody pasting an image url that gets shown or a link that gets a preview is pretty much it - still, it starts with about 200-300mb per workspace and gains weight faster than I do over the holidays.
    • mattbillenstein 7y ago
      Memory utilization used to be much worse ;) They improved it.