Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation

Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by pdimitar on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:14AM (#15274844)

i7 3770, 32GB RAM, dual SSD and two HDD setup, Windows 10 x64, everything flies, absolutely everything updates before I finish half-blinking my eyes. I have 2-3 Twitch streams running 24/7 and still have 30-50ms in any game I enter.

Yet, Slack manages to have lag between pressing Enter and showing a message. It's baffling to me how almost nobody doesn't seem to have a problem with that. Miranda IM worked much faster when connected to 6 networks... on a machine that was 10x slower than my phone.

Like, come on.

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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by darksim905 on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:16PM (#15277157)

Windows 10 is probably your issue there to be honest. I have issues with HipChat at work on Windows 10 on a Mac. But at home on Linux with worse hardware? No issues. It's literally Windows 10 & drivers.

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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by TeMPOraL on Monday September 18, 2017 @12:46PM (#15277413)

I wonder what exactly would be an issue? Windows tends to have the best drivers for... pretty much everything.

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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by pdimitar on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:07PM (#15279602)

But that's just the thing -- Slack is the only laggy program on my machine and trust me, as a dev with 15 years of professional (and total of 25 with hobby) experience and an aspiring sysadmin, I have a lot.

Can't blame the entire OS for a single program being badly written.

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Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation by maccard on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:38PM (#15278361)

I'm also windows 10, and find it impossible to blame. I've run discord on the same machine on a much more active group, and it's far more performant.

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