Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by KennyBlanken » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:27 PM UTC

woodruffw wrote: post #12

vdfs wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Their client exists almost entirely to collect data about you (chiefly what games you're playing and with whom.) That's one reason they are so quick to ban non-official-client users.

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

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Post by KennyBlanken » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:29 PM UTC

random42_ wrote: post #9

maccard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a very long time (ive not checked recently) slack used more memory that my IDE on a multimillion line c++ project. I used to have to shut down slack to compile on a machine with 128GB ram.

I think it improved quite a lot. I’ve just checked and it’s using 58mb on my Windows 11 workstation.

It definitely has improved. It was clear from the memory usage vs community size that they were doing something that scaled with community size. This is a guess, but something like loading every single user and their profile icon into memory.

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

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Post by Mandatum » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:30 PM UTC

Ripcord survived C&D letters because it didn't charge. I feel bad for OP for putting all this work in, because it's really cool - but you're going to get sued.

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

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Post by paxys » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:30 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #16

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 u…

What does that have to do with Slack? If your computer has trouble playing high frame rate video it'll be the same on every application.

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

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Post by ccakes » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:31 PM UTC

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #20

Why on earth would I want to look up flights in a slack client?

I think that is just a macOS thing, you can do that with a flight number in Messages.app today.

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

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Post by kccqzy » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:32 PM UTC

MarcelOlsz wrote: post #20

Why on earth would I want to look up flights in a slack client?

It's built into the OS. You can do it in any app that chooses to support it. (NSDataDetector or some such.)

It's a demonstration of OS integration.

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

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Post by rad_gruchalski » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:33 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #16

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 u…

> 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.

There’s a setting to disable animated gifs. Which also disables party parrots and other animated crap emojis.

There it is: https://slack.com/help/articles/228023907-Manage-animated-im....

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

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Post by lzli2 » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:33 PM UTC

Interesting

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

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Post by toastercat » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:34 PM UTC

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?

Not necessarily, although this gets routinely brought up in the Ripcord Discord server. Ripcord essentially just uses the browser APIs, so it's not really different from opening Discord in Firefox.

That being said, Discord can ban people at random for whatever reason they choose, and this has happened before.

For the record, I've been using Ripcord with the same Discord account for 3 years, daily.

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

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Post by _jal » Wed, Jun 29, 2022, 11:35 PM UTC

random42_ wrote: post #9

maccard wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a very long time (ive not checked recently) slack used more memory that my IDE on a multimillion line c++ project. I used to have to shut down slack to compile on a machine with 128GB ram.

I think it improved quite a lot. I’ve just checked and it’s using 58mb on my Windows 11 workstation.

> I think it improved quite a lot.

Maybe on Windows. My work machine (running Big Sur) currently shows:

Slack: 251.6MB

Slack Helper: 10.2MB

Slack Helper: 48.3MB (Yes, there are two of them)

Slack Helper (GPU): 316.2MB

Slack Helper (Renderer): 350.4MB

So just shy of a gig of RAM for chat.