3 ms·

Maybe something has changed in the last few years, but the last time I used it, I found their Electron app to be a resource hogging pile of garbage. But that's

Maybe something has changed in the last few years, but the last time I used it, I found their Electron app to be a resource hogging pile of garbage. But that's just my opinion.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
It was. They made improvements with their election app. Few years ago, it is resource hog and eat up batteries like it is candy while idling. It went from 100% to 30% within two hours. Now, it barely used up much resource and very light on battery. I recommend trying it out again, it is much better now than it was before.
- IMcD23 5y ago
  It's still extremely heavy compared to any native Mac app. On my M1 machine, Slack (plus it's 4 separate helper processes) is currently using a total of 679MB of RAM. The Mail app, in comparison, is using 147MB.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    It is not fair to make that comparison. Mail app is first-party app made by Apple. They will optimize it as much as possible and it only for macOS. Slack is a third-party app, run inside Electron which is cross-platform. A cross-platform that have to ensure that every platform that Slack have to account for OSes quirks. Mail app (email application) and Slack (instant messaging application) are entirely different beasts, they are not the same thing. I'm glad that Slack only uses 600± MB of memory. Few years ago, it usually uses more than that, about 1.5 - 2 GB in my experience. Now I checked my Slack (and its services) combined memory usage is 400± MB.
    - smcleod 5y ago
      From an end user perspective I think it's absolutely fair to make that comparison. Electron is a bag of garbage for the end user / machine. Native apps (mail or otherwise) perform, feel, look better than electron apps while using far less resources including power with less crashes in my and my coworkers experience.
- smcleod 5y ago
  It's not as heavy as MS Teams (which is possibly the worst software I've ever used) but it's still heavy, it "fixes" some of its memory leaks by reloading on a timer...
nonameiguess 5y ago
M1 itself is the biggest thing that changed. Being an energy hog isn't as big a deal when the CPU is so efficient that the battery lasts more than a workday almost no matter what. Age old case of increasingly inefficient software relying on better hardware to cover for it.

Maybe something has changed in the last few years, but the last time I used it, I found their Electron app to be a resource hogging pile of garbage. But that's just my opinion.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

It was. They made improvements with their election app. Few years ago, it is resource hog and eat up batteries like it is candy while idling. It went from 100% to 30% within two hours. Now, it barely used up much resource and very light on battery. I recommend trying it out again, it is much better now than it was before.

IMcD23 5y ago
It's still extremely heavy compared to any native Mac app. On my M1 machine, Slack (plus it's 4 separate helper processes) is currently using a total of 679MB of RAM. The Mail app, in comparison, is using 147MB.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  It is not fair to make that comparison. Mail app is first-party app made by Apple. They will optimize it as much as possible and it only for macOS. Slack is a third-party app, run inside Electron which is cross-platform. A cross-platform that have to ensure that every platform that Slack have to account for OSes quirks. Mail app (email application) and Slack (instant messaging application) are entirely different beasts, they are not the same thing. I'm glad that Slack only uses 600± MB of memory. Few years ago, it usually uses more than that, about 1.5 - 2 GB in my experience. Now I checked my Slack (and its services) combined memory usage is 400± MB.
  - smcleod 5y ago
    From an end user perspective I think it's absolutely fair to make that comparison. Electron is a bag of garbage for the end user / machine. Native apps (mail or otherwise) perform, feel, look better than electron apps while using far less resources including power with less crashes in my and my coworkers experience.
smcleod 5y ago
It's not as heavy as MS Teams (which is possibly the worst software I've ever used) but it's still heavy, it "fixes" some of its memory leaks by reloading on a timer...

nonameiguess 5y ago

M1 itself is the biggest thing that changed. Being an energy hog isn't as big a deal when the CPU is so efficient that the battery lasts more than a workday almost no matter what. Age old case of increasingly inefficient software relying on better hardware to cover for it.