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This is becoming so often it's embarrassing really. The way it's handled in the app is also not ideal to say the least - only indication that something is wrong is that the text you are trying to send is greyed out.
Eventually the status bar appears saying they're having an issue.
Since twitter went down the other week hackernews is now the primary 'is it down?' news site.
I use https://downdetector.com/ I've often experienced issues with sites that say "everything's sunshine and rainbows" on their status pages, only to find that many other customers are experiencing the same problem.
" Some workspaces might be experiencing issues with messages sending and loading." (emphasis mine) Is that marketing-speak to lessen the loss of trust?
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10+ electron apps seems excessive, what other Electron apps are you running? I think Slack is the only one I'm running (that I know of)
I run VSCode, Slack, Discord, GitHub, and my company's own app. There are others out there that I would use but my memory pressure is already too high.
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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.
My Android tests on my test device started failing at the same time. Is Slack app's background service flooding my network?
My charger blew the electricity off at the same time. Got back online without slack working, I thought I broke the internet
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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.
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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, hat…
This is becoming so often it's embarrassing really. The way it's handled in the app is also not ideal to say the least - only indication that something is wrong is that the text you are trying to send is greyed out.
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> then take a look at https://zulipchat.com/ for something that sucks less, and is open source software. I really want to like Zulip Chat. It has everything all the alternatives have + self-hosting, but as soon as they switched to their Electron client, it has become yet another resource hog that I have to put up with. I already have to put up with 10+ electron apps slowing down my Macbook. I shouldn't have to make s…
10+ electron apps seems excessive, what other Electron apps are you running? I think Slack is the only one I'm running (that I know of)
I just migrated off of and removed Atom, GitKraken and Github Desktop to only use VS Code but I don't think I am able to open Chrome or Firefox without it swapping out to my SSD. I have to kill two or three other apps to recover my RAM usage just to stop the constant freezing when using either browser. After sometime browsing the internet, I see a list of swap-files everywhere and eventually I run out of space.
So when I see another Electron app to use instead of Slack, I usually avoid it and I try to find another usable alternative if I can.