Discord is great

Sure, but Discord's web app and their native app are basically equivalent. The native app gives a little more system integration (like global hotkeys and direct access to sound hardware) but fundamentally the Discord app is just a webview.

I don't think anyone doubts that a high-quality website wrapped in a webview won't be at least the same quality. The question is whether "web-native" platforms can do more than just be a branded browser.

So is gitkraken.

But I assume these apps have spent a considerable amount of time in optimizing electron, which not everyone can do.

While some may find GitKraken visually pleasing, it can't be used for big repos; didn't even manage to open a few of the ones I tried.

I was curious as I've never found a standalone visual git client I liked as much as IntelliJ's integrated one. So I downloaded it, found it was 1/4 of a GB and wouldn't look at a local repo without logging in to a web service. Deleted.

I still haven't found anything better than IntelliJ's triple column view for resolving merge conflicts. Is there anything similar in a more lightweight editor?

If you don't mind having it separate from your main editor, Meld is great.

Interesting that this is touted as one of the "best" uses of Meld[0]. Will try this out tomorrow.

0: http://meldmerge.org/help/resolving-conflicts.html

Some years ago I was evaluating GUI git clients (the landscape has changed since) for rather simple flows and found SmartGitHg simple enough to setup and explain in under an hour and powerful enough not to drop to a shell. No affiliation here.

It never used to require logging in but the moment they added that I deleted it.

Slack?

stutters horrendously very often for my work setup (~800 people). also eats tons and tons of memory and kills my battery

Anecdotal problems

Another anecdote; your comment is the only one I've ever noticed that appears to be defending Slack. From an outsider looking in, I'm not sure why it is so popular.

It's popular because technical superiority isn't why people use software.

For example, Spotify eats 100% CPU if I leave it open for 24 hours yet I don't think I've met someone in the last year that doesn't have Spotify running on their computer.

If it helps, I don't have Spotify.

Slack takes up 1.3 gb of RAM if I don't restart it at least once a week