What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative

Re:What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative by it33 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:17AM (#12372696)

I use the Mattermost iOS app daily, and it works well on a good connection.

The iOS app is a feature rich experience similar to web and desktop apps, so when I travel and am on a slow connection it doesn't perform as well.

Here are our current mobile performance benchmarks so you can decide for yourself: https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/push.html#mobile-perf...

There's work underway to get the mobile apps working better on slow connections.

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Re:What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative by WhitneyLand on Saturday August 27, 2016 @05:16PM (#12374224)

You said it's feature rich, therefore has lower performance over slow connections.

This is not true. Mobile app performance over slow connections is determined by app/server architecture, payload efficiency, caching strategy, etc.

There are many examples of feature rich apps performing well on slow connections, and many simple apps performing poorly over a normal connection.

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