Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
by maccard on Monday September 18, 2017 @02:36PM
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It is very much slow. Compare typing a message in slack to typing a message in sublime, or even visual studio. There is a long noticeable delay when sending messages, when changing channels, opening threads, attachments, scrolling, searching.
I've a high end workstation on windows 10, and a gigabit jnternet connection. There's no excuse for the delays we see. Another major issue for me at least is their editing system. If you send a message, and edit it "too soon", the UI pretends to edit it, and some seconds later comes back and gives you a modal dialog saying it failed to apply the edit, and undoes your edit. The delay is _huge_ - 10-20 seconds.
I've a high end workstation on windows 10, and a gigabit jnternet connection. There's no excuse for the delays we see. Another major issue for me at least is their editing system. If you send a message, and edit it "too soon", the UI pretends to edit it, and some seconds later comes back and gives you a modal dialog saying it failed to apply the edit, and undoes your edit. The delay is _huge_ - 10-20 seconds.