Maybe it’s been improved, i haven’t used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.
Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn’t see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I’m willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And no I’m not one of those “just use irc” people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it’s fast and surprisingly light. But it’s also written in native C++ so that’s more expected
Hm, yeah, I think it’s definitely better now. The things you mention mostly sound like intermittent issues that I would notice for an hour or two actually. I don’t even really hold those against the product since they would have weird glitches sometimes but they always fixed them quicker than any software team I’d been on would’ve.
My thought about electron is that it has trade offs like any other tech. I think it’s cool that web developers can publish cross platform desktop apps without needing to learn a lot of new things and work around as many platform issues. That feels like a construct that would necessarily come at a performance cost. I’d probably be pissed if every app was moving to electron but as it stands I likely don’t run more than 2 or 3 at a time.
I wish that the Firefox equivalent to electron would come back though, because fuck Google.
Maybe it’s been improved, i haven’t used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.
Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn’t see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I’m willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And no I’m not one of those “just use irc” people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it’s fast and surprisingly light. But it’s also written in native C++ so that’s more expected
Hm, yeah, I think it’s definitely better now. The things you mention mostly sound like intermittent issues that I would notice for an hour or two actually. I don’t even really hold those against the product since they would have weird glitches sometimes but they always fixed them quicker than any software team I’d been on would’ve.
My thought about electron is that it has trade offs like any other tech. I think it’s cool that web developers can publish cross platform desktop apps without needing to learn a lot of new things and work around as many platform issues. That feels like a construct that would necessarily come at a performance cost. I’d probably be pissed if every app was moving to electron but as it stands I likely don’t run more than 2 or 3 at a time.
I wish that the Firefox equivalent to electron would come back though, because fuck Google.