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Considering Facebook engineering has gone into detail about how the new site is much faster and transmits much less JS and CSS, I would be a little surprised if
by baddox 6y ago
Considering Facebook engineering has gone into detail about how the new site is much faster and transmits much less JS and CSS, I would be a little surprised if the opposite is true. I tend to not implicitly trust HN comments about things being extremely slow, because for whatever reason there are so many of these complaints I’ve never experienced myself. I still haven’t even had performance problems with Electron apps, and those seem to be widely panned on HN as having abysmal performance. They work fine for me.
- tincholio 6y agoFor me, it is decidedly slower and clunkier
- paulryanrogers 6y agoIt's possible both are true: loads faster for newer computers/wider bandwidth, loads slower on older devices
- Zenbit_UX 6y agoReally? I assume you don't have slack installed on a Mac then eh? What a horrendous piece of shit.
- baddox 6y agoI’ve had Slack running on multiple Macs for years. I have plenty of complaints about Slack, but none involve performance. What’s the actual complaint? Do people just look at their memory usage and see Slack taking a lot, and if so, is that actually a problem?
- LunaSea 6y agoSlack is incredibly slow by any metric. Startup takes tens of seconds. Typing messages with formatting is visibly sluggish. And in common cases it just crash's and restarts. Memory usage is also an issue if you compare it to the usefulness of Slack. Just communicating with my team shouldn't take 1/5th of my laptop's resources.
- wdb 6y agoThe problem is to install such a distractive application like Slack as an app on your computer. I leave these kind of solutions all in their website so I can control when I want to see messages. So neither accepting desktop notifications. That's nice thing about async messaging solutions, no expectation you respond within in a second. If they need to talk straight away they can call :)
- MattGaiser 6y ago> They work fine for me. They generally work fine. They just annihilate battery life and processing capacity while doing so.
- baddox 6y agoI’ve never had any noticeable issues with that, and I’m almost always running and heavily using VS Code and Slack on my Macs.