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

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Post by sofixa »

paxys wrote: post #13

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.

> crashes

I've literally never had or heard of Slack crashing, across Windows, Ubuntu and macOS, regardless of memory available (8-32GB) and use. Do people really have Slack regularly crash on them or is that just something that gets attached to Electron (for some reason).

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

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Post by Ndymium »

Mandatum wrote: post #23

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.

I wouldn't be so sure. IRCCloud offers Slack connectivity (using Slack's API, not the IRC bridge that was closed long ago) and it costs money. I've used it for a couple of years now.

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

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Post by tokamak-teapot »

st3fan wrote: post #43
vzaliva wrote: post #4

It looks nice, but if you plan to try it as you default Slack client be aware it is lacking many features: - Edit posted messages (big one, TBA) - Authentication w/ XOXC tokens - Loading older messages - Typing indicators - Starring & Pinning things - Search - Sharing messages - Screensharing and Calls (aka Screenhero) - Joining and creating channels

Yeah, but multiple windows! OMG! I find managing multiple conversations with Slack so incredibly challenging. Having multiple windows open for active conversations is sooo good.

I haven’t tried this but… if you use Slack in a browser can you open new tabs for conversations?

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

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Post by philsnow »

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #27
walrus01 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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... .

I also got tired of this especially when I wasn't even looking at Slack but it was not hidden, so it kept animating gifs and emoji etc that I can't see. Hammerspoon let me just disable them whenever I was on battery power:

https://gist.github.com/philsnow/4086e07b28d8d3cd17f5bf81ff8...

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

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Post by gbalduzzi »

tumult wrote: post #125
heartbreak wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely to be successful? This app has near zero chance of surviving a legal challenge from Slack.

Author of Ripcord. You don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t broadcast your assumptions as fact.

You keep commenting one-line sentences without any argument supporting your sentence. You may even be right, but am I supposed to blindly trust you, a random commenter from the internet?

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

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Post by dijit »

sofixa wrote: post #141
paxys wrote: post #13

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.

> crashes I've literally never had or heard of Slack crashing, across Windows, Ubuntu and macOS, regardless of memory available (8-32GB) and use. Do people really have Slack regularly crash on them or is that just something that gets attached to Electron (for some reason).

A slack crash would be the window going white and reloading.

I get them occasionally.

An electron crash would kill the window. I get these sometimes too when I try to run natively in wayland, which I’m aware is unsupported so I’m not blaming anyone for that.

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

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Post by anaisbetts »

greenthrow wrote: post #65
paxys wrote: post #13

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.

An even better reason would potentially be security. Exploits in electron are pretty common, which may be a result of its ubiquity making it a big target. But also it's just a complicated platform to secure.

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

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Post by skizo »

sofixa wrote: post #141
paxys wrote: post #13

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.

> crashes I've literally never had or heard of Slack crashing, across Windows, Ubuntu and macOS, regardless of memory available (8-32GB) and use. Do people really have Slack regularly crash on them or is that just something that gets attached to Electron (for some reason).

Slack crashes on my Ubuntu setup on the regular.

Grey screens. Unresponsive during video calls. Eats all of my memory at least once a day. The app is a mess.

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

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Post by philsnow »

avggeek wrote: post #138
philsnow wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Macos Chrome you can still do hamburger menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut... and enable "open as window", and Chrome will create a .app file that, when you run it, opens that site as a PWA. Additionally it gets the favicon of the site by default as its app icon (you can change that) and then it shows up in the cmd-tab list as an app completely separate from Chrome. This works really nicely with Slack, especial…

There's a GitHub project that enables you to run PWA's with Firefox as distinct apps (with thier own icons etc): https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox . Disclaimer: Haven't tried it out myself.

Thanks, that's interesting but I'm not so anti-Chrome that I'm going to use a "custom modified Firefox runtime" just for PWAs. I don't even use the above trick these days; I've gone back to just using Slack.app.
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