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When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
- Deimorz 7y agoDupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20499200
- RyanGWU82 7y agoThis is a different article, going into more of the technical details of the desktop update. The other post is for a more general audience.
- _bxg1 7y agoOP here: they're the same article. This one is just under Slack's own domain name instead of medium.com.
- RyanGWU82 7y agoYep, I misspoke -- I thought the other one had been pointing to the public announcement at https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-desktop-experience https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt.... This is indeed a dupe.
- dang 7y agoYes. Comments moved thither.
- AJRF 7y ago"All data access had to assume a lazily loaded and incomplete data model" While this sounds good, in theory it leads to gross animations and horrific skeleton outlines which slow you down more than an initial load. I which they stated they do this for the workspaces and use cases that needed it rather than what it sounds like (this will be everywhere)