If it were the backend, I would not expect the load times to improve when loading Slack into a browser tab where its resources are constrained. Separately, if

If it were the backend, I would not expect the load times to improve when loading Slack into a browser tab where its resources are constrained. Separately, if it were strictly a Slack problem and not Electron, you wouldn't expect to see these kinds of issues crop up across the spectrum of Electron apps. Scroll through this thread and you can see a variety of people running into these problems in all kinds of different electron-based apps: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12988 https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/12988