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Re:Slack was down by xeromal on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:40AM (#20555719)
Half a gig for IRC + gifs
Re:Slack was down by asark on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:43AM (#20555752)
Seriously. Oh, good, now it's only 4-5x as large as it has any right to be, even allowing for modern software bloat...
Re:Slack was down by allana on Monday July 29, 2019 @11:44AM (#20555765)
Such is the nature of slightly optimized Electron apps, T-Mobile Digits Desktop app is a similar resource hog.

Using the browser based version often is less resource intensive.

Re:Slack was down by lugg on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:14PM (#20556911)
Tried that, they actively employ darkpatterns to coerce users onto desktop apps. I even asked them to stop asking for an app install on their links that you open from inside the webapp and they told me to get stuffed and use the desktop app.
Re:Slack was down by allana on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:30PM (#20557090)
Yea, I use Matrix integration when I deal with Slack, that way I have my choice of client and there isn't any code of Slack's running on my machine.
Re:Slack was down by KORraN on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:26PM (#20559036)
Strange, after declining message about "native" desktop app, I've never seen it again. No other issues as well. Firefox 69 on Windows, one paid and one free workspace.