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I am a fan of native apps but I do have to admit it is nice that slack is -exactly- the same on any platform you access it from and that will continue to be the

I am a fan of native apps but I do have to admit it is nice that slack is -exactly- the same on any platform you access it from and that will continue to be the case without any effort from their developers. Different ports of native apps invariably start drifting unless lots of care is taken to make sure they don’t, and that does not happen to always be a priority for companies.

yurishimo 5y ago
This is true and a valid use case I think. Slack has abstracted enough of their UI to be re-usable cross platform that any re-write would likely be a regression. Look at 1Password and the amount of shit they get on HN with the beta version. Rewrites are hard and they take a tooooooon of time to do correctly and require a lot of engineering work to keep the product consistent across platforms. Do I wish that electron apps were better optimized? Yes, however, I also can accept the tradeoff for apps that need to work "everywhere". For the most part, Slack works just fine. Their problems are less the UI/UX and more to do with infrastructure. Slack rewriting to a native app would have a tiny (if any) effect on these outages.