Not that I don't believe you, I know this is real stuff that bothers people!
But it's so nice that this stuff never gets to steal brain cycles or cause me stress
Writing code in a heavy editor over VNC from the dog park wifi where I can type out my statement and pet my dog before it finishes? No problem!
Powerful IDE with everything including the kitchen sink but in some Faustian bargain it chugs at basic text editing? Let's try it!
Cool new editor doesn't have Vim bindings and a ton of mouse movement required? No problem!
It feels like I'm unencumbered by so much that some of my colleagues are always obsessing over, and yet we're all capable of the same output
I'm sure you have some efficiency built into your life that makes you more fragile.
(I don't use vim/emacs etc.) But you're saying that running water is a not a good idea because what if you have to go and get water from the well every day when the water stops running. You'd be so annoyed...
That reminds me of this blogpost [1]. It's definitely possible to optimize the input latency of rich text editors in the browser: they just have to be close to the metal of the 'contenteditable' browser api.
[1] https://juretriglav.si/what-happens-when-you-type-a-single-l...
No wonder these things are so unusable. But I guess slack know who they're targeting? People who won't notice the latency because when the pixels show up they're still busy finding the next key to press, or trying to find the right button for the text formatting... /s
I had forgotten how nice it was to quickly go through email and remember how quick gmail was when it launched. A colleague said “it’s just five seconds to open and load an email, that’s not a lot of time.” But that adds up.
That’s an extreme amount of time… GMail and Outlook are both horribly slow and I can’t understand how anyone wants to use them. Outlook even manages to be slow with their desktop app. Not as slow as either web app, but still a noticeable delay.
Fastmail at least is true to it’s name and fast.
I guess that is why people dont understand I am annoyed as I will only give a time budget of 500ms to open and load an Email on the Web.
If that is the case, I advise you check what's taking so long, I get nothing like it with my thunderbird setup.
Given, I disable html formatting where I can, that might make a difference. But even on my 2009 i5 desktop with hdd storage it doesn't take that long to load the actual email.
opening an email is always longer than 500ms, rendering it isn't in any system i use. hence i am not sure what we are talking here. if we are talking opening, then the 3seconds initial bootup of gmail isn't worth talking about imo.
the bottleneck for me at least is always finding the email and thunderbird is by far the worst unfortunately.
E-Mail is just a transport-protocol, poor in ability compared do other solutions and rather complicated, especially when it should be made safe.
The email standard(s) are great. Powerful, decentralized, and damn near universal. It's just that we live in a world where a Duopoly has taken over most of what we consider to be email.
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When writing longer things on either, I find myself firing up vim to copy paste afterwards, just because it's impossible to get into any kind of flow in these apps.
VS code also falls into this category by the way, albeit less severe.
For notion specifically, the total lack of keyboard navigation within a page (PgUp/PgDown, Space, Shift+Space, nothing works!) as well as the fact that wherever I click I will make immediate changes to the document (even if I just want to deselect some text or so) just makes the editing hugely frustrating, slow, and anxiety-inducing.
Seriously, if one day I wake up and write my boss that I'm outta here, notion and slack (and asana...) are way up there on the list of reasons.