Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by mikecsh on Sunday July 16, 2017 @05:41AM (#14781286)

Security concerns with this particular project aside, my dev machine does indeed have 8 GB of RAM, which Slack alone readily consumes 1/8th of whilst also using 15% of my total CPU power at rest, doing nothing at all.

There is no excuse for this - it is shoddy engineering. Sending text messages is a simple task. Ruining my battery life and performance for the sake of making it easier for the billion dollar company to ship a cross platform app which feels wrong on every platform is something I despise and I for one am extremely happy that people are trying to counter this ridiculous trend.

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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by RaleyField on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:04AM (#14781335)

I'm saying this as a past user of slack and knowing that this doesn't help, but if they can't keep their frontend solid we can probably surmise their backend is just as shoddy, so we shouldn't be using it, no matter what client we choose to use.

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Re:Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Sl... by mikecsh on Sunday July 16, 2017 @06:30AM (#14781393)

If only I could convince my company of that!!

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