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not irrational. the performance problems can be measured and are noticeable in everyday use.
by ch_sm 7y ago
not irrational. the performance problems can be measured and are noticeable in everyday use.
- notatoad 7y agohow can you measure the performance difference between an app that exists and one that doesn't?
- stephenr 7y agoChat apps have been around for literally decades. There’s plenty of prior and current competing apps that do essentially the same thing and use a fraction of the resources.
- dmitriid 7y agoVery few prior apps did what Slack is doing [1] And there are not that many actual competitors if you start counting them. [1] It's still strange to me that many people compare Slack to IRC and XMPP and complain that they were doing all the same things, why have people abandoned them. Even though they (and especially the clients) were doing (or capable of doing) just a small fraction of what Slack is doing.
- notatoad 7y agothere's also web-based chat apps that use next-to-no resources. If slack's webapp is so heavy, what makes you think a native app from the same company would be considerably better?
- stephenr 7y agoI'm not saying I do, really: they seem to be incapable of writing anything efficient, and don't seem to be bothered by that.