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.
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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.)