Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
by asciident on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:11PM
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Electron is a nice option these days. Slack and VS Code are first-in-class applications, and while there's a slight performance hit compared to native, it's still a better experience than web (otherwise, people would have stuck with slack.com)
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Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
by ocdtrekkie on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:30PM
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I think Electron is bloated garbage, and it's a massive waste to shove a Chrome install into your chat client to be a chat client...
...But it's still better than Google telling the parent they have to install Chrome to install Google Chat.
Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
by IggleSniggle on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:34PM
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Fwiw, I use discord.com, slack.com, and teams.com. So at least some folks prefer chat in browser to Electron. I do this to preserve system resources, but because they somehow seem to work better for whatever reason when run from within the browser.
Re:Google is getting left behind due to horrible UI/UX
by danudey on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:50PM
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Counterpoint: Electron is a terrible option these days, and while I'd be okay with a "performance hit", it's actually UI lagginess that I can't deal with (and makes it a horrible frustration to deal with).