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Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by pjmlp »

72deluxe wrote: post #218
aluhut wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?

Call me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

-- Niklaus Wirth

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by wh313 »

72deluxe wrote: post #218
aluhut wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?

Call me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.

It's because Electron has taken over desktop app development. While it does significantly lower the knowledge barrier to building desktop applications, it does come with a heavy memory overhead.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by aluhut »

72deluxe wrote: post #218
aluhut wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?

Call me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.

Wow Skype with 109MB?!

Last time I've had it installed it was something close to a gig. But then it became a cluttered monster I rather fear so that's not relevant anymore.

Same goes for this. I'm happy to give that RAM to Signal since what I get for it, is more then worth it and I have the RAM left. It took me more time and headaches to get people to use Signal on their phones in the first place than it will ever for that 130MB RAM.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by aluhut »

mrmondo wrote: post #215
aluhut wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?

Howdy, glad to hear it’s less for you, that’s a much more reasonable amount of memory to use but are you sure you’re including all active memory from each of its processes / worker threads?

Yes I did as long as those 4(5?) starting with "Signal*" were all to count. But your other problems go far beyond that.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by jorvi »

72deluxe wrote: post #218
aluhut wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a single of those happened to me. Are you sure there is nothing wrong with your PC? It uses 130MB RAM here (Win). How much is it on your side?

Call me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.

That is actually not a bad amount, the native Telegram macOS client hovers around the same. WhatsApp Web (also built on Electron) consumes a staggering 300-500mb.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by Propen »

csomar wrote: post #69

Privacy. Privacy. Privacy. Bla, bla, bla... Now we are going to ask for your phone number. Am I the only one who thinks this defeats the whole point?

Signal is about _privacy_ not necessarily anonymity. Understand the difference?

edit: And anyways, if you read their blog posts you can see how you phone number is only required to make it easy to connect for the masses. You already have your social graph in your contact book.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by ivm »

jorvi wrote: post #225
72deluxe wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Call me old, but how can a messaging app like this use 130MB RAM? I am exasperated that Skype on my machine is using 109MB with only one conversation window open. We seemed to get by with MSN Messenger with far less RAM, and the features were pretty much identical. It boggles the mind how memory-intensive some of the modern apps are. It's insane.

That is actually not a bad amount, the native Telegram macOS client hovers around the same. WhatsApp Web (also built on Electron) consumes a staggering 300-500mb.

Native Telegram takes only 80mb on my Mac.

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by asdojasdosadsa »

A lot of people have given negative feedback(because of electron?). I for one, am happy for this. I am in the middle of migrating slowly to Mozilla Firefox from Google Chrome, and one of the hardest things, is to have some of the apps as standalone. I couldn't use my MacBook for anything else if I wanted to chat using signal (..and have chrome running in the background).

Maybe that's just me, but it's good news!

Re: Standalone Signal Desktop

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Post by JshWright »

asdojasdosadsa wrote: post #229

A lot of people have given negative feedback(because of electron?). I for one, am happy for this. I am in the middle of migrating slowly to Mozilla Firefox from Google Chrome, and one of the hardest things, is to have some of the apps as standalone. I couldn't use my MacBook for anything else if I wanted to chat using signal (..and have chrome running in the background). Maybe that's just me, but it's good news!

It's not "standalone" though... It's moving from being a Chrome extension to simply bundling an entire instance of Chromium that only it gets to use.

So, you're migrating from Firefox to multiple instances of Chrome...

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