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Slack Status – Trouble with DMs and Threads

26 points by infrawhispers 4y ago

infrawhispers 4y ago
Did a hard refresh of the application, data in channels and threads will not load. At least the status page was updated reasonably quickly!
Spasnof 4y ago
Looking at the status page vs the history. They list the Messaging as being the affected service out of 10 other services. Seems like a pretty lynchpin service and also the one affected the most just eyeballing the last few incidences in history. https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/calendar https://status.slack.com/calendar
Yeroc 4y ago
Even when fully functional Slack's threading is completely broken for me! Ugh.
- treesknees 4y ago
  Yep I missed discussion about an important meeting today because it occurred in a thread in a channel I don't normally talk in. I like the idea of threads but I feel like you miss so much of the conversation if you're not actively looking out for them.
- ctur 4y ago
  Half of my interactions with the Slack UI are desperate attempts to not accidentally lose notifications, particularly through threads. "Mark Unread" is the most frequent command I use I think.
  - drewbeck 4y ago
    it's wild that in 2022 we don't have better patterns for this I do think there are relatively easy things slack can do to improve this experience, but I also think that notification and task management is unsolved and mostly unattempted
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newbieuser 4y ago
off-topic: why does slack keep a few gb cache in mac app? most of it is indexeddb data I guess. what kind of data can be held that is really worth being this big?
- enticingturtle 4y ago
  The upside of a larger cache is that everything is more responsive and old threads load faster. What’s the downside?
  - doubled112 4y ago
    You can still purchase a laptop with 32GB and 64GB of disk. That’s a pretty large portion of it for a chat app. Does it scale based on disk size or does it just grow forever?
    - orf 4y ago
      It will be in the cache directory on MacOS, which is pruned by the OS when it thinks space is low.
  - newbieuser 4y ago
    That's not what I'm asking. I wonder what a messaging app does with that much cache. and this is a pretty slow app despite the cache
- avian 4y ago
  It's not just the Mac app. My local storage for slack.com on Firefox currently takes 1.5 GB. It goes up with time and Slack takes longer and longer to open, so every so often I go to preferences and clear it out.
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26 points by infrawhispers 4y ago

Did a hard refresh of the application, data in channels and threads will not load. At least the status page was updated reasonably quickly!

Spasnof 4y ago

Looking at the status page vs the history. They list the Messaging as being the affected service out of 10 other services. Seems like a pretty lynchpin service and also the one affected the most just eyeballing the last few incidences in history. https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/ https://status.slack.com/calendar https://status.slack.com/calendar

Yeroc 4y ago

Even when fully functional Slack's threading is completely broken for me! Ugh.

treesknees 4y ago
Yep I missed discussion about an important meeting today because it occurred in a thread in a channel I don't normally talk in. I like the idea of threads but I feel like you miss so much of the conversation if you're not actively looking out for them.
ctur 4y ago
Half of my interactions with the Slack UI are desperate attempts to not accidentally lose notifications, particularly through threads. "Mark Unread" is the most frequent command I use I think.
- drewbeck 4y ago
  it's wild that in 2022 we don't have better patterns for this I do think there are relatively easy things slack can do to improve this experience, but I also think that notification and task management is unsolved and mostly unattempted
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newbieuser 4y ago

off-topic: why does slack keep a few gb cache in mac app? most of it is indexeddb data I guess. what kind of data can be held that is really worth being this big?

enticingturtle 4y ago
The upside of a larger cache is that everything is more responsive and old threads load faster. What’s the downside?
- doubled112 4y ago
  You can still purchase a laptop with 32GB and 64GB of disk. That’s a pretty large portion of it for a chat app. Does it scale based on disk size or does it just grow forever?
  - orf 4y ago
    It will be in the cache directory on MacOS, which is pruned by the OS when it thinks space is low.
- newbieuser 4y ago
  That's not what I'm asking. I wonder what a messaging app does with that much cache. and this is a pretty slow app despite the cache
avian 4y ago
It's not just the Mac app. My local storage for slack.com on Firefox currently takes 1.5 GB. It goes up with time and Slack takes longer and longer to open, so every so often I go to preferences and clear it out.
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