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Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by woodruffw »

vdfs wrote: post #11
woodruffw wrote: post #5

See also: Ripcord[1], which has both Slack and Discord support. [1]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Won't using a 3rd party app for Discord get your account banned?

It's probably against their terms of service, so maybe. It probably depends on a combination of (over)zealous automation and whether they feel it's in their expedient interest to crack down on.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by paxys »

The first thing I looked for was a comparison with the official Slack client in terms of performance, since that's the only reason why I'd consider using this. Numbers for CPU load, memory use, time to perform certain actions, crashes. Doesn't seem to be anything available on the site regarding this, which is a shame.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by j1elo »

vdfs wrote: post #11
woodruffw wrote: post #5

See also: Ripcord[1], which has both Slack and Discord support. [1]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

Won't using a 3rd party app for Discord get your account banned?

From today's conversation about Thunderbird 102: yes, it seems running a 3rd-party client has a high chance of receiving a ban.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31914288#31915716

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by walrus01 »

dubswithus wrote: post #2

I remember people on HN complaining about responsiveness. Never found it to be a problem personally.

it's an obscenity that somebody pasting one high frame rate GIF into a slack channel can cause a quad-core, tenth generation core i7 laptop CPU to peg itself at 85% usage and begin wasting battery, heating up, spinning fans, etc.

if somebody told me twenty years ago how powerful this CPU was, relative to what I was using at the time for a desktop PC, and that a chat application could pretty much max out the CPU and use multi gigs of RAM, I would have laughed...

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by ulkesh »

It’s an interesting start, but it’s missing some pretty vital features the official Slack client has.

I get how development works and I understand needing funding to support development, but I’ll be holding off on this until there is at least a much closer feature parity.

I suppose I’m getting too old to beta test daily driver software.

Re: Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS

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Post by DrewADesign »

I get the value of using native clients but the interface design would be a hurdle for me. For example, the message window has no visual hierarchy. The spacing between each message and the space between the username and message content are nearly the same with the font size being the same— just with a heavier weight. Without being able to easily visually separate each message into a block, it just looks like a bunch of lines of text when you first look at it. It's tough to see without looking for it, but the Slack client is fantastically visually parsable. It fits a whole lot of functionality in there with very little interface clutter.
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