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Ripcord is great and I use it for Discord and Slack, but it is far from feature complete. Important to note that Ripcord is developed by one person. Some major

Ripcord is great and I use it for Discord and Slack, but it is far from feature complete. Important to note that Ripcord is developed by one person. Some major things that are lacking: * No search (Slack/Discord) * No huddles in Slack * Thread support in Discord For these reasons, I typically navigate to Discord/Slack in the browser when I need access to those features. Not ideal, but the snappiness of Ripcord over the slow bloat of Slack/Discord make it worth it to me.

kevingadd 4y ago
Ripcord has had search support in Slack for a while, it's under the Workspace menu. Otherwise, yeah. It's unfortunate to have to open the browser to do some of this stuff but the day-to-day experience of using it is great.
- toastercat 4y ago
  Thanks -- I really had no idea.
gtirloni 4y ago
I feel like it being based on Electron is the least bad thing about it. Native or not, you have to reach the API for everything and that's slow.
- toastercat 4y ago
  Agree to disagree. Selecting a channel in Slack takes like 300ms for me almost every time. There seems to be an inherent UI lag with Slack and Discord. Ripcord, on the other hand, is instantaneous.
  - klabb3 4y ago
    Wholeheartedly agree that that's not acceptable performance, but blaming electron, which runs on chromium which is famously fast (despite its other issues) seems misguided. To me it sounds like an artifact of architectural choices, eg by polling before rendering to avoid flicker, lack of client side caching, or possibly just bloat. Companies won't stop their poor software practices even if they switched to native.
    - bartvk 4y ago
      It could be an artifact of architectural choices, but Microsoft Teams also has that flickering/loading when switching tabs or chats.
    - toastercat 4y ago
      The post I responded to mentioned the Electron; I was talking about the client performance in the browser, but I've had similar experiences with the Electron clients for Discord and Slack. I don't doubt you can make a performant snappy chat GUI with Electron/web tech, but more often than not, in my experience, Qt apps (like Ripcord) perform much better and are less RAM hungry.
julianlam 4y ago
Is there a better frontend for Ripcord? I tried it, and while it's fast, it's just so utilitarian.
- toastercat 4y ago
  Nope. The look is part of the appeal; it puts function over form, and looks native-ish instead of like a webapp. There is a theming system included, however, it only allows you to change colors/fonts of UI elements.

kevingadd 4y ago

Ripcord has had search support in Slack for a while, it's under the Workspace menu. Otherwise, yeah. It's unfortunate to have to open the browser to do some of this stuff but the day-to-day experience of using it is great.

toastercat 4y ago
Thanks -- I really had no idea.

gtirloni 4y ago

I feel like it being based on Electron is the least bad thing about it. Native or not, you have to reach the API for everything and that's slow.

toastercat 4y ago
Agree to disagree. Selecting a channel in Slack takes like 300ms for me almost every time. There seems to be an inherent UI lag with Slack and Discord. Ripcord, on the other hand, is instantaneous.
- klabb3 4y ago
  Wholeheartedly agree that that's not acceptable performance, but blaming electron, which runs on chromium which is famously fast (despite its other issues) seems misguided. To me it sounds like an artifact of architectural choices, eg by polling before rendering to avoid flicker, lack of client side caching, or possibly just bloat. Companies won't stop their poor software practices even if they switched to native.
  - bartvk 4y ago
    It could be an artifact of architectural choices, but Microsoft Teams also has that flickering/loading when switching tabs or chats.
  - toastercat 4y ago
    The post I responded to mentioned the Electron; I was talking about the client performance in the browser, but I've had similar experiences with the Electron clients for Discord and Slack. I don't doubt you can make a performant snappy chat GUI with Electron/web tech, but more often than not, in my experience, Qt apps (like Ripcord) perform much better and are less RAM hungry.

julianlam 4y ago

Is there a better frontend for Ripcord? I tried it, and while it's fast, it's just so utilitarian.

toastercat 4y ago
Nope. The look is part of the appeal; it puts function over form, and looks native-ish instead of like a webapp. There is a theming system included, however, it only allows you to change colors/fonts of UI elements.