Since twitter went down the other week hackernews is now the primary 'is it down?' news site.
I don't think this is the appropriate forum for "is down" postings. Post-mortems are interesting.
Agreed
Slack was down
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Re: Slack was down
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt... I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.
How is CPU and I/O use on the newest version?
Re: Slack was down
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available. Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?
2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
as mentioned in another reply -- the slack client memory hog issue was fixed in the latest update.
Re: Slack was down
#124If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.
Has anyone tried Twist ( https://twist.com/ )? It looks a lot like Zulip but with a nicer UI. I think it is crazy that Slack has not invested more in first-class threaded, context-aware conversations.
Re: Slack was down
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt... I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.
Half a gig for IRC + gifs
Seriously. Oh, good, now it's only 4-5x as large as it has any right to be, even allowing for modern software bloat...
Re: Slack was down
#126If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.
My company uses Zulip and I'm very happy with it.
Re: Slack was down
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt... I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.
Half a gig for IRC + gifs
Such is the nature of slightly optimized Electron apps, T-Mobile Digits Desktop app is a similar resource hog.
Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.
Re: Slack was down
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available. Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?
They're a $17 billion company. They'll be just fine.
Their valuation is actually extremely sensitive to usage patterns right now, however. If they lose $1m of business, it's not like they're worth $1m less. That million bucks is not only used in an assumption for making that money over and over for the next couple decade, but also as an indication of growth for more adoption. I don't know the exact model that gets used, but it's likely that losing $1m in business today causes hundreds of millions in loss for their market cap.
Re: Slack was down
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
2GB of RAM use for 6 open tabs in Slack is pretty awful, their desktop client has set the bar to compete with Slack on performance very low. This abusive resource usage has created a dislike of Slack among a subset of its users.
They actually just fixed that in 4.0: https://slackhq.com/introducing-a-more-efficient-slack-deskt... I'm currently sitting at 400MB total usage (including helpers) for 4 workspaces.
400MB for what basically is a client for a proprietary version of IRC is ridiculous. How much memory did BitchX use ?
Re: Slack was down
#130If you're a community driven project or organization using Slack, then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I've found it much more pleasant to use and less buggy than Slack.
Wish we wouldn’t use such language, “sucks less” is highly subjective and your opinion but we don’t need to disparage Slack in order to make a point that alternatives like Zulip are available. Seems like especially poor tone on an outage thread... “Don’t kick them while they’re down” or something?
Engineers grew up on chat (IRC, AIM/MSN/ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, etc.) and have opinions about what it should look and feel like. When a company raises billions for a product that feels like using dinky Fisher-Price software that you could have written better and gotten rich off instead, and moreover when their product is forced upon you by your workplace and it becomes a major distraction and headache...
Ire, jealousy, hate... There are a lot of bad feelings towards Slack.
These are not necessarily my feelings, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't dislike them just a little.