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> crashes I've literally never had or heard of Slack crashing, across Windows, Ubuntu and macOS, regardless of memory available (8-32GB) and use. Do people rea

by sofixa 4y ago

> crashes I've literally never had or heard of Slack crashing, across Windows, Ubuntu and macOS, regardless of memory available (8-32GB) and use. Do people really have Slack regularly crash on them or is that just something that gets attached to Electron (for some reason).

dijit 4y ago
A slack crash would be the window going white and reloading. I get them occasionally. An electron crash would kill the window. I get these sometimes too when I try to run natively in wayland, which I’m aware is unsupported so I’m not blaming anyone for that.
- bitexploder 4y ago
  Happens to folks on my team on occasion. Slack crashing. And the whole Electron app crashing too. Linux users.
noptd 4y ago
Slack crashes (unresponsive white window -> hard reload) for me at least once a day on the latest MacOS and Intel MBP, and it seems a common occurrence for many of the coworkers I talk to.
skizo 4y ago
Slack crashes on my Ubuntu setup on the regular. Grey screens. Unresponsive during video calls. Eats all of my memory at least once a day. The app is a mess.
- e-clinton 4y ago
  Not a single crash on Mac in 5 months I’ve been using it. Perhaps it’s the Linux version? Or your system?
  - jsjohnst 4y ago
    You’ve never seen Slack reload while using it? Often, that’s a “crash” in an Electron app.
    - Tempest1981 4y ago
      I have not seen that. It's crash-free for me, running 24x7. But all that tells you is that it's crash-free on at least a small % of machines, so not a great way to analyze robustness. Maybe create an HN poll?
      - jsjohnst 4y ago
        > I have not seen that. No offense, but you must have blinders on then. On a fresh install on a new machine it’ll do it in the first day. > It's crash-free for me, running 24x7. There was a person who legit got struck by lightning multiple times in their life and lived, so anything is possible. Your claim is comparatively improbable though, but still has the possibility of being true.
  - jclardy 4y ago
    I get them all the time on my M1 Mac (Like at least once a week.) Sometimes even the white window that requires a force quit and doesn't auto-reload.
  - FridgeSeal 4y ago
    Slack crashes quite often for me-try to do too much? That’s a crash. Accidentally toggled the “huddle” button a couple of times - it’ll crash so badly, I legitimately have to restart the computer to fix it.
  - YetAnotherNick 4y ago
    I have experienced few crash like scenario with network issues on my Mac. If my wifi is poor for a minute, slack will permanently stop working unless I force reload using menu or restart it. Messaging apps are basically meant to not have permanent connection, but I have seen very few that could work with this assumption.
can16358p 4y ago
Slack regularly crashes with an empty window on my Mac. Not like a process crash, but the whole window going empty, needing to quit the process and reopen.
Tagbert 4y ago
I’ve never seen one on Mac OS Slack

by sofixa 4y ago

dijit 4y ago

A slack crash would be the window going white and reloading. I get them occasionally. An electron crash would kill the window. I get these sometimes too when I try to run natively in wayland, which I’m aware is unsupported so I’m not blaming anyone for that.

bitexploder 4y ago
Happens to folks on my team on occasion. Slack crashing. And the whole Electron app crashing too. Linux users.

noptd 4y ago

Slack crashes (unresponsive white window -> hard reload) for me at least once a day on the latest MacOS and Intel MBP, and it seems a common occurrence for many of the coworkers I talk to.

skizo 4y ago

Slack crashes on my Ubuntu setup on the regular. Grey screens. Unresponsive during video calls. Eats all of my memory at least once a day. The app is a mess.

e-clinton 4y ago
Not a single crash on Mac in 5 months I’ve been using it. Perhaps it’s the Linux version? Or your system?
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  You’ve never seen Slack reload while using it? Often, that’s a “crash” in an Electron app.
  - Tempest1981 4y ago
    I have not seen that. It's crash-free for me, running 24x7. But all that tells you is that it's crash-free on at least a small % of machines, so not a great way to analyze robustness. Maybe create an HN poll?
    - jsjohnst 4y ago
      > I have not seen that. No offense, but you must have blinders on then. On a fresh install on a new machine it’ll do it in the first day. > It's crash-free for me, running 24x7. There was a person who legit got struck by lightning multiple times in their life and lived, so anything is possible. Your claim is comparatively improbable though, but still has the possibility of being true.
- jclardy 4y ago
  I get them all the time on my M1 Mac (Like at least once a week.) Sometimes even the white window that requires a force quit and doesn't auto-reload.
- FridgeSeal 4y ago
  Slack crashes quite often for me-try to do too much? That’s a crash. Accidentally toggled the “huddle” button a couple of times - it’ll crash so badly, I legitimately have to restart the computer to fix it.
- YetAnotherNick 4y ago
  I have experienced few crash like scenario with network issues on my Mac. If my wifi is poor for a minute, slack will permanently stop working unless I force reload using menu or restart it. Messaging apps are basically meant to not have permanent connection, but I have seen very few that could work with this assumption.

can16358p 4y ago

Slack regularly crashes with an empty window on my Mac. Not like a process crash, but the whole window going empty, needing to quit the process and reopen.

Tagbert 4y ago

I’ve never seen one on Mac OS Slack