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Re:Slack client for Commodore 64 by maccard on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:28PM (#13065028)
Yep I put a ticket in for something simialr(grows to about 2GB every 2 days or so), and was told it's expected behaviour!!
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Re:Slack client for Commodore 64 by flukus on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @01:45AM (#13068944)
Everyone says scrolling back through history is a feature, but it grinds to a halt before you can scroll back very far anyway.
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Re:Slack client for Commodore 64 by laumars on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:25AM (#13069258)
Historic messages don't need to be cached in RAM if it's several pages above the proverbial fold.

However I'm not convinced it's just historic messages that's eating up the memeory. IRC clients aren't this bad even with thumbnail support like Slack. Whuchever way you look at Slack, it's needlessly wasteful.

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