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Email doesnt take 1GB+ of RAM when running.

• paxy 7y ago
  You clearly haven't used Outlook for Mac
  • andrei_says_ 7y ago
    Not OP but I haven’t either, because I don’t need to. Email is client agnostic.
• Spivak 7y ago
  If all you want Slack for is for IRC style conversations then there are lots of tiny Slack clients. My favorite being wee-slack that I use every day. I swear people complain about Slack being bloated like the majority of us aren't using Chrome, Firefox, Outlook, VS Code, Atom, IntelliJ all day. This is something that at best is a mild annoyance to people outside HN. There's zero business value in developing desktop software that is lightweight because if people are willing to pay $5/user/month for it they're willing to give their employees computers capable of running it. We're in a forum of hackers -- we're supposed to feel smugly superior about our 500kb terminal Slack clients that have a built-in lisp interpreters.