A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by abjKT26nO8 on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:08AM (#23299917)

Exactly. Just 30 minutes ago I observed delays between me typing text and the text appearing in Slack's text input box. With my bare eyes on an idle system with 32GB RAM and a quad-core i7-6700! It isn't even rare. That's just absurd.

Back around 2012 I would have Empathy (XMPP) always on and I would use GNOME's wonderful "reply in notification" UI to talk to people. It felt snappy and its resource use wasn't noticeable on a laptop with 4GB RAM and a dual-core CPU. Modern chat apps are crap.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by akmarinov on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:49AM (#23301083)

Desktop Slack apps are based on Electron and just so you’ll get a sense of the bloat of it - all Electron apps have bundled in drivers for Xbox 360 controllers.

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by dijit on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:01PM (#23302331)

Is that really true? that sounds too absurd to be true.

I found this: https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/ which is post dated 2018, I'm sure it has to be configurable by now.

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