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Re: Slack's 404 page

#11

Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?

But don't most computers have many gigs of RAM? If it's not really hurting performance, who cares?

Re: Slack's 404 page

#15
post #9

In case you don't know, the team that made Slack first made a computer game called Glitch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) ). Slack was borne out of the chat system from Glitch. I believe this 404 page is meant to be reminiscent of that game.

It's the same art. All the graphics, and a bunch of the code, is in the public domain:

http://www.glitchthegame.com/public-domain-game-art/

Screenshot:

https://www.mmobomb.com/file/2012/08/glitch_002.jpg

Re: Slack's 404 page

#16

Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?

But don't most computers have many gigs of RAM? If it's not really hurting performance, who cares?

This is precisely why most software is terrible. :)

Re: Slack's 404 page

#18
post #4

Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?

It's as if they care more about pretty and shiny than quality code.

It's as if the fact they are the prettiest and shiniest chat app is a big reason they got that much venture money in the first place.

Re: Slack's 404 page

#19

Am I the only one who's like -- you've raised $80M (another $250M on the way?), this 404 page exists, and yet your app still uses over a Gig of RAM for my rather pedestrian work uses? What gives?

But don't most computers have many gigs of RAM? If it's not really hurting performance, who cares?

You must work at Slack...

The point is, I'm using one org, dozen channels, etc -- some are seeing several times this amount of resource usage and with seemingly endless supplies of capital and users complaining, it seems to get less attention than it deserves.

Re: Slack's 404 page

#20
post #9

In case you don't know, the team that made Slack first made a computer game called Glitch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) ). Slack was borne out of the chat system from Glitch. I believe this 404 page is meant to be reminiscent of that game.

That's really fascinating. Makes me wonder if they have a) an easter egg already, or b) plans to work on the game any more in the future.
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