Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by dotancohen on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:01AM
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There is almost universal hatred of the Slack app in our client relations department, due to performace. All use Mac laptops or Windows desktops, none of them know the term "Electron".
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by mmargerum on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:33AM
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I wonder why people run slack stand-alone. I run it as a pinned tab in my browser and with browser notifications it works great. Very few issues running it this way and performance seems good.
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by scott_s on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:07AM
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I have Chrome users for browsing, personal email, work email and Slack. I had Slack in a separate Chrome window, in a pinned tab. I noticed that changing to my communications space was slow. By eliminating windows one-by-one, I discovered, the culprit was the Slack pinned tab. I tried the Slack standalone app instead, and that slowness is gone. I can't explain why, but the standalone native app may actually perform better. I think it's worth checking out.
Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by lkbm on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @10:25AM
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I've gone back and forth between in-browser and stand-alone, but as my number of Slack teams grows, browser tabs get considerably less appealing. (I have five I monitor regularly and four more I don't care much about.)
I really don't think that's true outside of the HN echo chamber. Like OP, I am using a Macbook Air which is hardly a supercomputer and vscode runs perfectly fine on it.