3 ms·
It’s not though. Not even close. And I know this partially a matter of taste but I have one of the fastest computers you can buy and I can’t even participate in
by heyoni 6y ago
It’s not though. Not even close. And I know this partially a matter of taste but I have one of the fastest computers you can buy and I can’t even participate in text chats without input lag and delays in interaction. It’s not a good user experience for me at least but that’s ok, we’ll keep stacking more cpu power until it’s all in the cloud anyways.
- crazygringo 6y agoThat just sounds like server latency to me or some kind of bad programming like relying on polling. Obviously if you build a chat client in the browser and communicate between windows then it's instantaneous. Faster than human perception. Certainly doesn't seem to be a CPU issue to me. I mean, we run videochat in the browser which works fine. Obviously text chat can be instant.
- heyoni 6y agoI’m talking about the native slack app. I used to use the irc gateway and now go back and forth between desktop and unofficial gateways. I use keyboard shortcuts to navigate between chat windows and nothing about it is instantaneous...even when there’s nothing but text. Same thing applies to discord, and less so with WhatsApp and signal. Messages on the other hand is silky smooth, and terminal irc couldn’t get any faster.
- jfkebwjsbx 6y agoYou run hardware accelerated video, or in some cases SIMD hand-tuned native codecs. That is in the opposite side of where the abstraction that the web provides is.