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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by hs86 on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:54AM (#16793443)
Franz launches a completely new instance for every workspace/network that you add and these are based on their regular webviews. Unlike Slack, it will not unload less frequently used workspaces from your RAM and with 8 Slack workspaces, Telegram, Whatsapp and IRCCloud it managed to permanently allocate more than 3 GiB RAM. That may be fine on my beefy desktop PC but not on my MacBook Air with only 8 GiB RAM.

In my case, just leaving the official apps of these chat networks in the background seems to be less resource intensive than running Franz. I really hope that https://eul.im/ will up to my expectations.

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by gmemstr on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:27AM (#16793801)
I'm still really leery of eul.im, I can't seem to find anybody reviewing/actually using it and it throws up a couple detections on VirusTotal. Would be interested to hear of your experience.
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by amedvednikov on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:00PM (#16795330)
Hi, developer here. I just tested it on VirusTotal and didn't get any detections. Could you please post a screenshot with what you get here or contact me via [email protected]?

Thanks

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by gmemstr on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:24PM (#16796111)
VirusTotal link: https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e88753917d7283715f0a4c633e...

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/X60nnAT.png

I'm excited to try it but because I'd be using it for sensitve/confidential work I don't want to risk it unfortunately.

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by tuananh on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:54PM (#16798442)
The latest version fails to start for me (just crash upon startup)
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by magano227 on Monday April 09, 2018 @11:38AM (#16793930)
Have you tried eul? How does it behaves compared to the official clients or other non-native alternatives?
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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by hs86 on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:04PM (#16794201)
It was still very unstable for me and somehow their change-log always indicates that the upcoming version n+1 will be SO MUCH BETTER than the current version n.

Therefore I am always skipping the current version and wait for the next one.

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by amedvednikov on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:56PM (#16795296)
Yeah I've been really slow and unreliable with the releases so far with weekly delays. Developing a truly native client for all 3 platforms is pretty hard.

The final beta with Linux support is going to be released in a couple of hours, and the development process should be quicker now that I'm finally done with UI and graphics.

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Re:Show HN: Wey – A fast, open-source Slack desktop app by fak3r on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:27PM (#16798577)
Looks cool, I especially like the proposed Signal support... how can I download the Linux Beta? Not finding a link, and since it's not open source I assume the code isn't on github. Good luck, looks interesting
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