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Slack in browser tab user here. Got sick of the app and how slow it was pretty fast. It's just not worth it.

• codefined 5y ago
  Not a Slack user here. Is the app version _slower_ than the website? I assumed that since Electron is only a little bit more than a Chromium wrapper that they would have identical performance.
  • wowokay 5y ago
    Long time slack app user here, I don’t know how you guys organize your slack but performance has never been an issue for our organization, I don’t think it would run any better then it currently does if it were an os native app, of course my machine isn’t a toaster.
  • BeefWellington 5y ago
    It's not just the app being slower than the website, it's what it does to the rest of your machine. Contained within a tab Slack can only use a set amount of resources allotted by the browser. Whereas installing the app means it can go full hog.
  • BHSPitMonkey 5y ago
    One Chromium runtime managing five tabs is more efficient than five Chromium runtimes running one site each (because those instances aren't able to share anything with one another).
• TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  Isn't the native app just the Electron code repackaged for native, and not a true ground-up native app at all? If the code is based on HTML/js/CSS and not Swift/Obj-C/C++ (etc) then you're really creating a web app running in a native microbrowser. Which is very much not the same thing as writing OS and system calls directly - not least because it will be much slower.